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Venison Steaks with Crème Fraîche & Thyme Lentils

Deer produces a soft tender fillet steak like beef - sear to your liking and serve with creamy herb lentils

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Venison Steaks with Crème Fraîche & Thyme Lentils

Why it works: Lentils and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Venison Steaks with Crème Fraîche & Thyme Lentils

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

574Calories
71 gProtein
21 gFat
23 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Venison100g cooked158
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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. Lentils + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Olive + lentilstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lentils + thymetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (venison, olive, shallot, red wine, vinegar, chicken, thyme):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Lentilsthe original
  4. Sesamefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against venison, olive, shallot, red wine, vinegar, chicken, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.