Name: Dried Meat Calulu
Ingredients: 1 kg dried meat; 1 large onion; 3 medium large tomatoes; 2 cloves of garlic; ½ kg okra; 2 zucchini; sweet potato leaves; palm oil

Why it works: Okra and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dried Meat Calulu

Ingredients

Directions

Place the dried meat in water and cook with garlic. When it is cooked, add the tomatoes, onion, zucchini, sweet potato leaves and palm oil. Serve with manioc flour pudding (funge) and palm oil beans.
Category:Angolan Recipes
Category:Angolan Meat Dishes

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

406Calories

10 gProtein

15 gFat

65 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Okra	1 cup (100g)	33
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Meat	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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.

Okra + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + okratop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together212 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Tomato + okratop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together327 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, onion, tomato, garlic, okra, sweet potato):

Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, onion, tomato, garlic, okra, sweet potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.