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Roasted Carrots with Orange Zest and Cinnamon

This unusual combination of flavors will be popular with everyone at your table. Oven roasting concentrates the natural sugar in the carrots, giving them an extra flavor dimension. Serve these carrots with roasted chicken or fish and a green vegetable, such as green beans.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Roasted Carrots with Orange Zest and Cinnamon

Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Roasted Carrots with Orange Zest and Cinnamon

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

234Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By williamssonoma. 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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 (carrot, clove, orange, olive, pepper, cinnamon, lemon):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, clove, orange, olive, pepper, cinnamon, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.