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Upside Down

"This perfect meal features all four food groups. It is inspired by the Arabic dish called 'Maqluba,' which translates to 'upside down.' When the meal has finished cooking, you take the pot and flip it upside down onto a large serving platter, and everybody helps themselves."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Upside Down

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Upside Down

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

894Calories
54 gProtein
37 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0

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.

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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.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + eggplanttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together801 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Turmeric + eggplanttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cinnamon + turmerictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,197 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Turmeric + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, turmeric, pepper, lamb, meat, eggplant):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, turmeric, pepper, lamb, meat, eggplant. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.