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Thai Chicken & Vegetable Curry

Thai massaman curry with chicken, potato and squash.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Thai Chicken & Vegetable Curry

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories
41 gProtein
31 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Butternut squash + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + sunflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  3. Butternut squash + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butternut squash + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, potato, butternut squash, shallot, coconut, milk, sunflower):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Limethe original
  3. Cherryfits less well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, potato, butternut squash, shallot, coconut, milk, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.