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Vegetable Tagine with Almond & Chickpea Couscous

A take on a traditional Moroccan dish, this quick tagine will have your thinking of Arabian nights

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Almond + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,504 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Coriander + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Butternut squash + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butternut squash, cinnamon, ginger, honey, pepper, coriander):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butternut squash, cinnamon, ginger, honey, pepper, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).