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Peas with Baby Leeks, Parma Ham & Tarragon

Try this clever way with peas and you'll never find them hidden under the knife again

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Peas with Baby Leeks, Parma Ham & Tarragon

Why it works: Leek and tarragon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Peas with Baby Leeks, Parma Ham & Tarragon

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

668Calories
64 gProtein
35 gFat
22 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2

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. Leek + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Leek + peastop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together249 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Peas + tarragontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Leek + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (leek, butter, chicken, cream, tarragon, ham):

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Lentilsfits about as well
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

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