Name: Bacon Wrapped Delights
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 24 pieces
Ingredients: 12 spears white asparagus; 4 ounces enoki mushrooms; 4 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced 1/4-inch thick; 24 slices bacon

Bacon Wrapped Delights

"You can wrap almost anything in bacon and it'll taste great. Here is a recipe that works great as appetizers or as hors d'oeuvres. This dish can be served plain or accompanied with a hollandaise sauce or orange ponzu sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Asparagus and shiitake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Bacon Wrapped Delights

24 pieces

Prep25 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

12 spears white asparagus
4 ounces enoki mushrooms
4 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced 1/4-inch thick
24 slices bacon

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

119Calories

10 gProtein

4 gFat

14 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Shiitake	1/2 cup (73g)	34
Asparagus	6 spears (90g)	27
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15

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

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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.

Asparagus + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together25 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + shiitaketop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Asparagus + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together400 recipes

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

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

Swap the asparagus

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, shiitake):

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Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, shiitake. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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