Why it works: Broccoli and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 75 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
6 servingsIngredients
Directions
Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat.
Add the sliced garlic and the chopped chile pepper if using. Stir-fry for about 30 seconds until fragrant.
Add the broccoli florets and kale. Stir-fry for 2 minutes, adding a splash of water and covering the pan briefly to steam until tender-crisp.
Stir in the sun-dried tomato strips and cook for 1 minute more.
Remove from the heat, squeeze in the juice of the 2 limes, season with salt to taste, toss well and serve hot.
Explore the science
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.
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Broccoli + kaletop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together75 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together14,164 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,491 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Garlic + broccolitop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,072 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together14,075 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the lime
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, pepper, broccoli, kale, tomato):
- Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
- Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
- Limethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, pepper, broccoli, kale, tomato. 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).
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