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Baked Aubergines with Walnuts & Spices

Try aubergines Lebanese-style, roasted until really soft then scattered with a spice mix and served with flatbreads

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Baked Aubergines with Walnuts & Spices

Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Baked Aubergines with Walnuts & Spices

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

381Calories
21 gProtein
18 gFat
40 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Coriandernot 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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cinnamon + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, garlic, clove, cinnamon, cumin, coriander):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, garlic, clove, cinnamon, cumin, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.