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Creamy Baked Onions

Creamy onions that are perfect accompanying a roast dinner whether meat or veggie

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Creamy Baked Onions

Why it works: Onion and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Creamy Baked Onions

Prep5 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

207Calories
12 gProtein
13 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Onion and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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