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Roasted Eggplant Recipe with Almond Butter Coconut Sauce

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Roasted Eggplant Recipe with Almond Butter Coconut Sauce

Why it works: Eggplant and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 943 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Roasted Eggplant Recipe with Almond Butter Coconut Sauce

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

514Calories
5 gProtein
41 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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 cookincanuck. 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. Eggplant + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Almond + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Olive + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Eggplant + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the eggplant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, almond, butter, coconut, milk, sugar, fish sauce):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, almond, butter, coconut, milk, sugar, fish sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.