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Red Cabbage with Beetroot

Add some colour and vitamins to your plate with this aromatic cabbage dish. Perfect with boiled Christmas ham

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Red Cabbage with Beetroot

Why it works: Cinnamon and star anise match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 312 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Red Cabbage with Beetroot

Serves 8
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

343Calories
3 gProtein
12 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Beetrootnot in our table0
Star Anisenot 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. Cinnamon + star anisetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Beetroot + star anisetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cabbage + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Beetroot + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 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 (sugar, cabbage, apple, beetroot, cinnamon, star anise, red wine):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cabbage, apple, beetroot, cinnamon, star anise, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.