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Mologutal is a Bolivian lentil and vegetable stew made with carrots, cucumbers, yellow lentils, coconut paste, and spices.

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Why it works: Turmeric and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,698 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mologutal

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the vegetables

  1. Add chopped carrots and cucumbers to enough boiling water to cover, with a little salt, in a medium saucepan, and simmer for 10 minutes or until tender.

  2. While the veggies are cooking, boil 1 cup of water and add the yellow lentils and turmeric to it.

  3. Simmer for about 15–20 minutes or until soft.

Make the coconut paste

  1. Grind the shredded coconut, cumin seeds, and red chili in a blender or grinder with a little water to form a paste.

  2. Add this paste to the cooked veggies.

Combine and finish

  1. Once the lentils are cooked, add them to the veggie-coconut mixture and mix well.

  2. Bring the stew to a boil, and add water if it appears too thick.

  3. Add curry leaves and salt to taste.

  4. In a small frying pan, heat the oil and add the mustard seeds and urad dal. When the mustard starts to sputter, pour the oil-seed mixture into the stew.

  5. Stir well and ladle into soup bowls.

  6. Serve hot with chapatis, rice, tortillas, or bread.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

586Calories
14 gProtein
42 gFat
43 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Turmeric + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lentils + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lentils + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lentils + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Yellow lentils (moong dal)
Cook soft to form the body and thick texture of the stew.
Shredded coconut
Ground into a paste that adds richness and body to the stew.
Cucumbers
Soften during simmering to add moisture and mild bulk to the stew.
Carrots
Soften during simmering to add mild sweetness and bulk to the stew.
Mustard seeds
Sputtered in hot oil to release a nutty, aromatic flavour into the finish.

The step that matters

Adding the hot oil-seed mixture to the stew. Mustard seeds must sputter fully in hot oil before pouring; underheated seeds stay bitter and raw-tasting, and the sizzling oil carries the aroma through the dish.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, cucumber, lentils, turmeric, cumin, mustard):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutthe original
  4. Lemonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, cucumber, lentils, turmeric, cumin, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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