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Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas

A veggie dinner party dish which stands alone as a vegan main course or as a complex side dish perfect served with spiced roast meat or fish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas

Why it works: Sunflower and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1203Calories
34 gProtein
36 gFat
190 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 13 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Naan1 piece (90g)262
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Lemongrass1 tbsp (6g)5
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
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. Sunflower + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Coconut + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Mustard + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Sunflower + cardamomtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, cardamom, mustard, pumpkin, coconut, milk, chickpea):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, cardamom, mustard, pumpkin, coconut, milk, chickpea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.