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Lime and Sriracha Couscous

Serve this delicious dish and add your choice of grilled seafood on top. Super delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Lime and Sriracha Couscous

Why it works: Sriracha and lime work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 112 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Lime and Sriracha Couscous

Serves 2
Prep4 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

241Calories
6 gProtein
0 gFat
54 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Couscous1 cup cooked (157g)176
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Sriracha1 tsp (5g)5
Saucenot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Sriracha + limetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together112 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + srirachatop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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