Skip to main content

Walnut & Stilton Orzotto with Roasted Squash & Port Sauce

MasterChef finalist, Alex Rushmer, shows us how to create a show-stopping vegetarian starter for the festive season

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 26 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Champagne and cardamom work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 4 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Champagne + cardamomtop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Walnut + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sunflower + cardamomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Banana + champagnetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, sunflower, butter, banana, shallot, barley, champagne):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, sunflower, butter, banana, shallot, barley, champagne. 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).