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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 banana share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Pomegranate + bananatop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pineapple + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together732 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pomegranate + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Pepper + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Sunflower + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cucumber

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, pepper, pineapple, pomegranate, honey, sauce, coriander. 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).