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Aubergine Rice with Creamy Coconut and Yoghurt Stew and Lentil and Carrot Salad

This is a vegetarian feast that's bursting with flavour: a creamy curry, hearty salad, and spiced rice all in one.

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Why it works: Coconut and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Coconut + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Turmeric + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Turmeric + fenugreektop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cumin + carrottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together776 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Asafoetida + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the asafoetida

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (basmati rice, mustard, okra, turmeric, cumin, coconut, fenugreek):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Asafoetidathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against basmati rice, mustard, okra, turmeric, cumin, coconut, fenugreek. 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).