Name: Goat Curry Recipe
Prep time: 3 h 20 min
Cook time: 3 h
Yield: 8 people
Ingredients: 5 Boned leg or shoulder of goat or mutton, trimmed and cut into 5cm pieces; kg Fat garlic cloves, peeled and finely sliced; 6 Fresh bay leaves; 6 Cinnamon sticks; 2 Black peppercorns; 10 Mild curry powder; 2 Ground allspice; tsp Ground cloves; 1 Nutmeg, finely grated; tsp or 2 Scotch bonnet chillies or 1-2 long red chillies, trimmed and chopped (with seeds); 0.5 Malt vinegar; tsp Sunflower oil; 0.5 Large onions; 1 x 400g Tins chopped tomatoes; 5 Heaped, flaked sea salt; tbsp Heaped, dark muscovado sugar; 6 Black treacle; tbsp Cold water

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

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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.

Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together7,874 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,536 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,331 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, clove, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, malt, vinegar):

Cardamomfits better
Gingerfits better
Marjoramfits better
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, clove, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, malt, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Allspice	1 tsp ground (1.9g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Mutton	not in our table	0
Scotch	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Malt	not in our table	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

Goat Curry Recipe