Name: Carri Coco Curry Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 125 butter; g tablespoon sunflower oil; 1 large onions, diced; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 5 cm cube of root ginger, peeled and grated; 3.5 medium sweet potatoes (preferably orange-fleshed), cut into cubes; 2 carrots, cubed; 4 butternut squash, peeled and cubed; 1 Chinese leaf, cut into 2.5cm strips; 400 large handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped; g small handful of thyme, finely chopped; 1 coconut milk; 1 salt and pepper; 400 curry leaves; ml ground cinnamon; 1 chilli powder; pinch ground allspice; 10 cayenne pepper; 1 ground black pepper; tsp ground turmeric; 0.5 plantains; tsp tablespoons oil or 30g butter

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. 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.

Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Sunflower + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together44 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,833 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Ginger + sweet potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together306 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sunflower, onion, garlic, clove, ginger, sweet potato):

Limefits better
Coconutfits better
Avocadofits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sunflower, onion, garlic, clove, ginger, sweet potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Allspice	1 tsp ground (1.9g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Pumpkin	not in our table	0
Leaf	not in our table	0
Plantain	not in our table	0

Carri Coco Curry Recipe