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Chickpea and Chestnut Stuffing

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By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chickpea and Chestnut Stuffing

Serves 8
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

644Calories
19 gProtein
47 gFat
38 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
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Hazelnutnot 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.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chickpea + sunflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Olive + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Olive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Sunflower + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the chickpea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sherry, sunflower, pepper):

  1. Chickpeathe original
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Almondfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sherry, sunflower, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.