Name: Pomegranate Stuffing
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 400ml vegetable or chicken stock; pinch saffron; handful ready-to-eat apricots , sliced into strips; handful Craisins or dried cranberries; 50g butter; 200g couscous; 50g shelled pistachios , toasted and roughly chopped; handful pomegranate seeds; small bunch coriander , chopped

Why it works: Pistachio and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Pomegranate Stuffing

Serves 6

Prep10 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

400ml vegetable or chicken stock
pinch saffron
handful ready-to-eat apricots , sliced into strips
handful Craisins or dried cranberries
50g butter
200g couscous
50g shelled pistachios , toasted and roughly chopped
handful pomegranate seeds
small bunch coriander , chopped

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

873Calories

45 gProtein

43 gFat

80 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Couscous	1 cup cooked (157g)	176
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Pistachio	1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)	159
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Pomegranate	1/2 cup seeds (87g)	72
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Apricot	1 medium (35g)	17
Saffron	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Coriander	not in our table	0

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.

Pistachio + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Saffron + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together88 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Saffron + coriandertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together381 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Saffron + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together22 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Pomegranate + coriandertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together107 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, saffron, butter, pistachio, pomegranate, coriander):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, saffron, butter, pistachio, pomegranate, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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