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Jerusalem Kugel Recipe

A Jewish dessert made by caramelising sugar with oil and then combining this with lokshen vermicelli. If you have never tasted it before it is quite different from classic savoury or sweet kugels.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Dill and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 530 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Jerusalem Kugel Recipe

6 people
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

398Calories
8 gProtein
33 gFat
21 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
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot 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 lovefood. 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. Dill + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sunflower + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, sugar, pepper, cinnamon, egg, dill):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, sugar, pepper, cinnamon, egg, dill. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.