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Vegetable Jalfrezi

A meat-free curry, low in saturated fat and packed with goodness from butternut squash, cauliflower, peppers and chickpeas

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Vegetable Jalfrezi

Why it works: Butternut squash and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetable Jalfrezi

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1314Calories
57 gProtein
11 gFat
248 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Naan1 piece (90g)262
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Butternut squash + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coriander + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Sunflower + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + butternut squashtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sunflower + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, butternut squash, coriander, pepper, chickpea, yogurt):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, butternut squash, coriander, pepper, chickpea, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.