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Pork, Sage & Chestnut Stuffing Parcels

It's fine to tweak Christmas lunch traditions, when they're this good and easy

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Pork, Sage & Chestnut Stuffing Parcels

Why it works: Chestnut and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 102 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pork, Sage & Chestnut Stuffing Parcels

Serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1018Calories
36 gProtein
37 gFat
133 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sausage100g cooked301
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Chestnutnot 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. Chestnut + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apple + chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  3. Apple + sagetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together755 recipes

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

  4. Onion + chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, chestnut, egg, sage):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, chestnut, egg, sage. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.