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Lemon Verbena Butter Recipe

A summery herbed butter.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon verbena and parsley work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 4 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

1/2 pound

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon verbena + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  3. Butter + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Butter + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,197 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Lemon verbena + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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