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Tenderstem Broccoli & Chorizo with Poached Eggs

Why serve eggs on toast, when they go so well with this stylish supper?

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Tenderstem Broccoli & Chorizo with Poached Eggs

Why it works: Watercress and spinach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Tenderstem Broccoli & Chorizo with Poached Eggs

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

457Calories
16 gProtein
39 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot 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. Watercress + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

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

  3. Broccoli + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Broccoli + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, egg, red wine, vinegar, watercress, spinach, pine):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, egg, red wine, vinegar, watercress, spinach, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.