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Beetroot & Mint Dip

A healthy and vibrant dip, flavoured with nigella seeds and cumin to serve with crudites or flatbreads - it works well in lunchboxes too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Beetroot & Mint Dip

Why it works: Beetroot and cumin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Beetroot & Mint Dip

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

22Calories
1 gProtein
1 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Mint2 tbsp fresh (3g)2
Beetrootnot in our table0
Nigella Seednot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Beetroot + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mint + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Cumin + minttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Cumin + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,477 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Beetroot + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together574 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the nigella seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, cumin, mint, lemon):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nigella seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, cumin, mint, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.