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Oriental Vegetable Kebabs with Peanut Dressing

Cook these veggie kebabs on the barbecue or under the grill. If you're short on time use teriyaki sauce instead of the marinade and ready-made satay sauce in place of the dressing.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Oriental Vegetable Kebabs with Peanut Dressing

Why it works: Cherry tomato and garlic share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Oriental Vegetable Kebabs with Peanut Dressing

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

814Calories
12 gProtein
42 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Roasted Peanutnot 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. Cherry tomato + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, sunflower, basmati rice, sauce, garlic, sugar, ginger):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sunflower, basmati rice, sauce, garlic, sugar, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.