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Roast Grouse with Blackcurrant & Beetroot Sauce

Available from August, this game bird is best served with a fresh, full-flavoured fruit sauce and a dash of whisky to boot

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Roast Grouse with Blackcurrant & Beetroot Sauce

Why it works: Thyme and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,476 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Roast Grouse with Blackcurrant & Beetroot Sauce

Serves 4
Prep40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

786Calories
47 gProtein
17 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 13 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Whiskynot in our table0
Redcurrantnot in our table0
Blackcurrantnot in our table0
Beetrootnot 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. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together198 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

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

  4. Spinach + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

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

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

Swap the spinach

The recipe marks spinach as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, thyme, shallot, bread, sunflower, whisky, chicken):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, thyme, shallot, bread, sunflower, whisky, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.