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Sausage, Apple & Leek Pie

Quicker to make than a traditional pie, and easy on the purse too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Sausage, Apple & Leek Pie

Why it works: Leek and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Sausage, Apple & Leek Pie

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

976Calories
33 gProtein
34 gFat
133 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork Sausage100g cooked301
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Pastrynot 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 + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

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

  2. Leek + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pork + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,445 recipes

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

  4. Flour + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, leek, flour, mustard, egg):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, leek, flour, mustard, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.