Name: Lemony Chickpea Stir-fry Recipe
Yield: Serves 2 - 4.
Ingredients: 2 tablespoon ghee or extra-virgin olive oil; fine grain sea salt; 1 small onion or a couple shallots, sliced; 1 cup cooked chickpeas (canned is fine, if you don't want to cook up a pot of dried chickpeas); 8 ounces extra-firm tofu; 1 cup of chopped kale; 2 small zucchini, chopped; zest and juice of 1/2 a lemon

Why it works: Chickpea and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Lemony Chickpea Stir-fry Recipe

Serves 2 - 4.

Ingredients

2 tablespoon ghee or extra-virgin olive oil
fine grain sea salt
1 small onion or a couple shallots, sliced
1 cup cooked chickpeas (canned is fine, if you don't want to cook up a pot of dried chickpeas)
8 ounces extra-firm tofu
1 cup of chopped kale
2 small zucchini, chopped
zest and juice of 1/2 a lemon

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

434Calories

21 gProtein

21 gFat

48 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chickpea	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	134
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Tofu	100g firm	76
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Kale	1 cup chopped (67g)	33
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Ghee	not in our table	0

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.

Chickpea + kaletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together35 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Kale + lemontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together226 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chickpea + lemontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together527 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Tofu + kaletop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Chickpea + tofutop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together12 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ghee, onion, chickpea, tofu, kale):

Avocadofits better
Coconutfits better
Limefits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ghee, onion, chickpea, tofu, kale. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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