Name: Vegetable Tempura with Soy & Dipping Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 100g (approx) each of a mix of firm vegetables , cut into bite-size pieces, such as aubergine, broccoli, courgette, mushrooms, red pepper and sweet potatoes; tempura batter (see below); groundnut or sunflower oil , for deep frying; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 3 tbsp dry sherry; 1 tbsp sugar; 1 lemon , zest only

Why it works: Broccoli and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 86 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Vegetable Tempura with Soy & Dipping Sauce

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Ingredients

100g (approx) each of a mix of firm vegetables , cut into bite-size pieces, such as aubergine, broccoli, courgette, mushrooms, red pepper and sweet potatoes
tempura batter (see below)
groundnut or sunflower oil , for deep frying
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp dry sherry
1 tbsp sugar
1 lemon , zest only

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

454Calories

12 gProtein

15 gFat

70 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0

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.

Broccoli + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together86 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Sweet potato + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together44 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Broccoli + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together146 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Mushroom + sherrytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,176 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).
Broccoli + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,747 recipes

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

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, pepper, sweet potato, sunflower, sauce, sherry, sugar):

Capsicumfits better
Shallotfits better
Spinachfits better
Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, sweet potato, sunflower, sauce, sherry, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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