Name: Celeriac Soup with Quail’s Eggs & Parsley Oil
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1l vegetable stock (see below for recipe); 50g butter; 500g celeriac , peeled and cut into chunks; 1 small onion , roughly chopped; 1 garlic clove , roughly chopped; 1 medium potato , peeled and roughly chopped; 50ml double cream; 250ml malt vinegar; 12 quail eggs; a small bunch parsley; truffle oil , to serve; crusty bread , to serve; olive oil; 1 onion , diced; 1 leek , diced; ½ fennel , diced; 1 celery stick, diced; 1 carrot , diced; 2 garlic cloves , roughly chopped; ¼ green cabbage , shredded; parsley , chopped to make 1 tbsp; chives , chopped to make 1 tbsp; 1 star anise; 10 black peppercorns , crushed

Why it works: Star anise and parsley share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 66 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Star anise + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together66 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,019 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Garlic + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4,512 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,855 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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Celeriac Soup with Quail’s Eggs & Parsley Oil

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