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Sausages Braised with Guinness & Onions

The sausage is the star of this hearty dish, so treat yourself to the best-quality banger you can afford

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Sausages Braised with Guinness & Onions

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Sausages Braised with Guinness & Onions

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1172Calories
34 gProtein
49 gFat
148 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork Sausage100g cooked301
Mashed Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Thyme + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Thyme + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

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

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, flour, potato, cream, butter, garlic):

  1. Thymethe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Jalapenofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, flour, potato, cream, butter, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.