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Why it works: Papaya and tamarind share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

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Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

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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. Papaya + tamarindtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Papaya + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Turmeric + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sunflower + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turmeric, coriander, garlic, chicken, pepper, sunflower, onion):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turmeric, coriander, garlic, chicken, pepper, sunflower, onion. 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).