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Mint and Cucumber Yoghurt

This yoghurt sauce is fab with spicy food such as curries, rice and savoury snacks like onion bhajis and kebabs

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and mint work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 884 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mint and Cucumber Yoghurt

Serves 4

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

214Calories
9 gProtein
8 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Cucumber + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  3. Mint + milktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  4. Cucumber + milktop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together554 recipes

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

  5. Cucumber + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,112 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, sugar, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, sugar, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.