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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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Why it works: Peas and tarragon work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 153 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Peas + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Leek + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together249 recipes

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

  4. Leek + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Chicken + hamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,497 recipes

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

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