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Chickpea Fritters with Courgette Salad

Mix up a pancake-style batter to make little griddle cakes with storecupboard ingredients, then serve with a contrasting green salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Chickpea Fritters with Courgette Salad

Why it works: Chickpea and sunflower 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 ↓

Chickpea Fritters with Courgette Salad

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1073Calories
60 gProtein
27 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Harissanot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Chickpea + sunflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

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

  2. Chickpea + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Chickpea + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Chickpea + harissatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + feta cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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 (chickpea, egg, milk, flour, onion, sunflower, feta cheese):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Harissathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, egg, milk, flour, onion, sunflower, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.