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Venison & Wild Boar Stew

A wintery meat-lovers' casserole that's packed with smoky pancetta, chestnut mushrooms and aromatic herbs.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Wild boar and garlic work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

  • To serve

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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. Wild boar + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, venison, wild boar, flour, pepper, olive, garlic):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, venison, wild boar, flour, pepper, olive, garlic. 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).