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Roast Root Veg with Cumin

Easy roast veg with a spicy kick to serve alongside the festive bird, and it can be prepped the night before

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Roast Root Veg with Cumin

Why it works: Parsnip and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 144 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Roast Root Veg with Cumin

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

251Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Celeriacnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Beetrootnot 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. Parsnip + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Parsnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Carrot + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Cumin + beetroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsnip + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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 (parsnip, carrot, cumin, olive, beetroot):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsnip, carrot, cumin, olive, beetroot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.