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Sesame Fried Couscous

Delicious Indian-flavoured couscous, perfect with fish, prawns, or burgers (Quorn Southern Style Burgers if you're vegetarian), or to stuff vegetables.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 208 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sesame Fried Couscous

Serves 1

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

348Calories
8 gProtein
14 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Couscous1 cup cooked (157g)176
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Waternot in our table0
Seednot 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. Cumin + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together208 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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