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Picnic Plait

Use sausages high in lean meat for this impressive picnic plait to keep the fat down

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Picnic Plait

Why it works: Leek and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,310 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Picnic Plait

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

920Calories
27 gProtein
29 gFat
138 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sausage100g cooked301
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Poppy 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. Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sunflower + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Sunflower + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Carrot + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (leek, carrot, sunflower, apple, meat):

  1. Celeryfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against leek, carrot, sunflower, apple, meat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.