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Seasonal Vegetable Dumplings in a Spicy Yoghurt Curry Served with Crispy Puri Breads and Cachumba Salad

You can rely on Indian cuisine for full flavoured vegetarian food. This veritable veggie feast combines familiar vegetables with more unusual Indian ingredients.

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Why it works: Cumin and fennel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 276 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cumin + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Butternut squash + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Beetroot + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Fennel + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Cumin + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, butternut squash, ghee, cumin, fennel, pomegranate, flour):

  1. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, butternut squash, ghee, cumin, fennel, pomegranate, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).