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Tomato & Harissa Stew with Cheddar Dumplings

Jazz up a vegetarian casserole with some spicy North African flavours and hearty cheese dumplings

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Tomato & Harissa Stew with Cheddar Dumplings

Why it works: Sunflower and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Tomato & Harissa Stew with Cheddar Dumplings

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1055Calories
38 gProtein
33 gFat
153 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Harissanot 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. Sunflower + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together538 recipes

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

  3. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Plum + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the harissa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, celery, plum, tomato, chickpea, butter):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Harissathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, celery, plum, tomato, chickpea, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.