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Creamy Prawn & Spring Vegetable Pot

Packed with goodness, this freeze-ahead one-pot is quick to prepare and counts towards your five-a-day

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Creamy Prawn & Spring Vegetable Pot

Why it works: Cabbage and broccoli match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Creamy Prawn & Spring Vegetable Pot

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

817Calories
74 gProtein
6 gFat
123 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Barley1 cup cooked (157g)193
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Shrimp100g cooked99
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Beannot 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. Cabbage + broccolitop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  2. Potato + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beans + broccolitop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together339 recipes

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

  4. Barley + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

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

  5. Broccoli + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, barley, potato, cabbage, beans, broccoli, dill):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, barley, potato, cabbage, beans, broccoli, dill. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.