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My Favorite Grilled Kabob Recipe

A kabob recipe featuring grilled mushrooms, lemons, tofu red onions and a delicious red pepper walnut slather.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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My Favorite Grilled Kabob Recipe

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

My Favorite Grilled Kabob Recipe

Makes 6 kabobs.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

921Calories
29 gProtein
25 gFat
154 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tofu100g firm76
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Walnut + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Cumin + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  5. Cumin + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cumin, bread, olive, pomegranate, molasses, tomato):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cumin, bread, olive, pomegranate, molasses, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.