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Chestnut, Bacon & Cranberry Stuffing

This festive stuffing brings together all the trimmings in one gorgeous mass, transforming your roast from mundane to truly memorable

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 139 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 24 stuffing balls

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Thyme + chestnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,608 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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 (butter, garlic, parsley, thyme, chestnut, egg):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, parsley, thyme, chestnut, egg. 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).