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Red Onion & Chilli Bhajis with Mint & Garlic Raita

Serve these moreish morsels as a starter, light lunch or supper or as part of an Indian meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,519 recipes mention both. Both carry phellandrene, which smells minty. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Mint + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,519 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Chickpea + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chickpea + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122 recipes

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

  5. Yogurt + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together497 recipes

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

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