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Kashmiri Dum Aloo Recipe

Kashmiri Spiced PotatoesThis recipe uses favorite Kashmiri spices like fennel/aniseed and ginger powder. Dum Aaloo is named so because it is cooked under Dum...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,114 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

1 Hour

Ingredients

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

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By chow. 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. Ginger + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,114 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cardamom + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cardamom + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together582 recipes

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

  5. Fennel + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together276 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the asafoetida

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, yogurt, ginger, fennel, cardamom, clove, cumin):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Asafoetidathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, yogurt, ginger, fennel, cardamom, clove, cumin. 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).