Name: Kale and Black Bean Falafel Recipe
Ingredients: 1-15oz Can Garbanzo Beans- drained; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice; 1 ½ Teaspoon Ground Cumin; ¾ Cups Black Beans; ¾ Cups Cooked Kale Chopped; ¼ Red Onion; 1 Teaspoon Garlic; ¼ Cup All Purpose Flour; 1 Cup Bread Crumbs; Salt and Pepper

Why it works: Beans and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,188 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,188 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Kale + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together490 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, olive, cumin, kale, onion, garlic, flour):

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Lemonthe original
Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, olive, cumin, kale, onion, garlic, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Kale and Black Bean Falafel Recipe