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Garbanzo Sandwich Spread

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Why it works: Beans and chickpea match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 229 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Garbanzo Sandwich Spread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Do you like garbanzo beans? i take a can of garbonzo beans, smash them up in a bowl with a little lemon juice, chopped onion, chopped tomato, a little salsa, chopped cilantro, and a dash of cayenne pepper and salt, and use it as a spread on bread. Warning: if you are taking this to work, assemble it right before you eat it, otherwise the bread gets soggy. Fatfree digest [volume 9 issue 50] aug. 10, 1994

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

219Calories
10 gProtein
3 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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.

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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. Beans + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together229 recipes

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

  2. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Chickpea + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together538 recipes

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

  4. Chickpea + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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, chickpea, onion, tomato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, chickpea, onion, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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