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Summer Vegetable Bowl

Steamed vegetables in their own delicious juices - this dish is light and tasty

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Summer Vegetable Bowl

Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Summer Vegetable Bowl

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

391Calories
19 gProtein
18 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turnip1 medium (122g)34
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9

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.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turnip + asparagustop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shiitake + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Asparagus + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, sherry, sauce, asparagus, shiitake, butter, onion):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turnip, sherry, sauce, asparagus, shiitake, butter, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.