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Roasted Grapes and Carrots

"This is an Indian dish I had while visiting a French family in the Luberon Valley. So I guess it's a French-Indian side dish. I love it and make it all the time."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 579 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-sec-butyl-2-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C) and set a rimmed baking sheet or two large pans in the oven to heat.

  2. In a large bowl, toss the red grapes, baby carrots, red onion wedges, olive oil and ground cumin until everything is evenly coated.

  3. Carefully spread the mixture in a single layer on the hot baking sheet(s), keeping the grapes and carrots from crowding so they roast rather than steam.

  4. Roast for about 15 minutes, until the carrots are tender when pierced with a knife and the grapes have softened and started to blister and split.

  5. Serve warm straight from the pan or transfer to a serving dish.

By allrecipes. 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. Grape + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-sec-butyl-2-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Carrot + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together776 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Carrot + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Olive + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,309 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Onion + cumintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,498 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, carrot, olive, cumin):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, carrot, olive, cumin. 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).