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Barszcz

A Polish classic, great hot in winter or cold in summer. For Teresah.....I hope you enjoy this one.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 10 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

  • FOR THE KWAS
  • FOR THE SOUP

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. Rye + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Beef + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

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

  4. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Garlic + mushroomtop 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 beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, flour, garlic, beef, onion, mushroom, sugar):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, flour, garlic, beef, onion, mushroom, sugar. 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).