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Smoked Haddock Tartlets with Poached Eggs & Chives

Gordon Ramsay's step-by-step guide to creating elegant prepare-ahead tartlets

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Smoked Haddock Tartlets with Poached Eggs & Chives

Why it works: Chive and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Smoked Haddock Tartlets with Poached Eggs & Chives

Serves 4
Prep40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1026Calories
53 gProtein
41 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Haddock100g cooked112
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
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. Chive + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Mustard + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together503 recipes

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

  4. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Flour + chivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, haddock, milk, egg, flour, chive, spinach):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, haddock, milk, egg, flour, chive, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.