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Melted Kale with Farro

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Makes 8 servings

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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. Kale + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together447 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Kale + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + chivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,487 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Kale + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together609 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, olive, chive):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, olive, chive. 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).