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Stir Fry of Duck & Winter Vegetables

From Gordon Ramsay's Boxwood Cafè, a stir fry-cum-stew combining duck breasts and seasonal vegetables to perfection

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsnip and star anise share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Parsnip + star anisetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

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

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Parsnip + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together589 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Rosemary + star anisetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, parsnip, olive, rosemary, star anise, red wine, tomato):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, parsnip, olive, rosemary, star anise, red wine, tomato. 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).