Name: Sautéed Mushrooms with Gremolata Recipe
Yield: 2 Main Dish Servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 1 pound cultivated or wild mushrooms (such as shitake, chanterelles, or oyster mushrooms, or a combination) trimmed and quartered if small, thickly sliced if large.; Salt; 2 tablespoons of Monthaven Chardonnay; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 to 2 garlic cloves (to taste), finely minced; ¼ cup finely minced fresh flat-leaf parsley; 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sautéed Mushrooms with Gremolata Recipe

2 Main Dish Servings

Ingredients

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 pound cultivated or wild mushrooms (such as shitake, chanterelles, or oyster mushrooms, or a combination) trimmed and quartered if small, thickly sliced if large.
Salt
2 tablespoons of Monthaven Chardonnay
Freshly ground black pepper
1 to 2 garlic cloves (to taste), finely minced
¼ cup finely minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

172Calories

5 gProtein

14 gFat

11 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Oyster Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Chanterelle	not in our table	0

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

By chow. 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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, mushroom, pepper, garlic, parsley, lemon):

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Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, mushroom, pepper, garlic, parsley, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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