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Spiced Carrot, Chickpea & Almond Pilaf

A one-pot rice dish with North African flavours that works equally well as a side or main

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and almond share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chickpea + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Olive + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together942 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Harissa + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 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

Flavor stand-ins for the harissa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, carrot, basmati rice, chickpea, almond, yogurt):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Harissathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, carrot, basmati rice, chickpea, almond, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).