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Tandoori Gobi Masala Recipe

Veggie tandoori dishes are very popular in India. The fragrant Patak's Tandoori Paste in this recipe really clings to the cauliflower, and basting with butter gives a lovely charred edge to your veg.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,112 recipes mention both. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep35 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cauliflower + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,112 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

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

  4. Flour + fenugreektop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together42,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fenugreek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cauliflower, flour, butter, onion, pepper):

  1. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Fenugreekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cauliflower, flour, butter, onion, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).