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Leeks with Gammon

Try serving this simple dish with a dry vintage cider, or an off-dry classic Vouvray - perfect spring into summer supper

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Leeks with Gammon

Why it works: Potato and leek work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Leeks with Gammon

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

373Calories
37 gProtein
4 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Potato + leektop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Leek + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,213 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, leek, chicken, mustard):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, leek, chicken, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.