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Pomegranate Stuffing

An alternative to baked stuffing, this jewel-encrusted festive side looks stunning on the Christmas table

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Saffron and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Saffron + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Pistachio + pomegranatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Saffron + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Saffron + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pomegranate + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, saffron, butter, pistachio, pomegranate, coriander):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, saffron, butter, pistachio, pomegranate, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).