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Broccoli & Peas with Sesame Seeds, Soy & Honey

Transform your side dish into something special with this low-fat, taste-packed recipe, delicious with fish

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Why it works: Sesame and honey work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 527 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Toast the sesame seeds and poppy seeds together in a dry frying pan over medium heat for 1 to 2 minutes, shaking the pan, until lightly golden. Tip them onto a plate to cool.

  2. Bring a pan of water to a boil. Add the broccoli florets and steam for 3 minutes.

  3. Add the frozen peas to the pan and cook for another 2 minutes, until both vegetables are bright green and tender-crisp.

  4. While the vegetables cook, whisk the soy sauce, clear honey and sesame oil together in a large bowl.

  5. Drain the broccoli and peas well, add them to the bowl and toss to coat in the soy and honey mixture.

  6. Scatter over the toasted sesame and poppy seeds and serve warm.

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. Sesame + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Sesame + broccolitop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Sesame + poppy seedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together106 recipes

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

  4. Broccoli + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Poppy seed + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together91 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, broccoli, peas, sauce, honey):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, broccoli, peas, sauce, honey. 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).