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Why it works: Rice and saffron work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 629 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Kufta Bozbash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook broth from lamb bones with peas. Grind lamb flesh and onion in a mincer, combine with rice, salt, spices and shape balles, hiding in the middle a cherry plum.

  2. Put diced potatoes, lamb balls and finely chopped onion into the broth, then add pieces of fat, salt, pepper and saffron extract.

  3. Category:Azerbaijanian Recipes

  4. Category:Azerbaijanian Soups

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

848Calories
40 gProtein
22 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mint2 tbsp fresh (3g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saffronnot 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.

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. Rice + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cherry + plumtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Saffron + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Cherry + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, rice, cherry, peas, potato, saffron, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, rice, cherry, peas, potato, saffron, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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