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Egg-bara

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and chickpea match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Egg-bara

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine the contents of a few fresh eggs with fried garara-masalla, cumin, chopped onions, minced ginger, and besam. Beat thoroughly.

  2. Form small thin cakes from the mixture.

  3. Fry the cakes in boiling ghee or oil until they are brown.

  4. Remove the cakes with a spoon and serve hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Cumin + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cumin + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cumin + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chickpea + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Ginger + chickpeatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cumin, ginger, chickpea, flour, ghee):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cumin, ginger, chickpea, flour, ghee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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