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Honey-glazed Guinea Fowl with Pomegranate and Pineapple

This recipe is certainly exotic – honey and five-spice chilli guinea fowl served with a fresh fruit salsa splashed with soy sauce. If you can source one, serve in a banana leaf to impress.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Pomegranate and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 107 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Honey-glazed Guinea Fowl with Pomegranate and Pineapple

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

409Calories
7 gProtein
2 gFat
102 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0
Leafnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Pomegranate + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together107 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cucumber + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cucumber + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together875 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, pepper, cucumber, pomegranate, honey, sauce, coriander):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, pepper, cucumber, pomegranate, honey, sauce, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.