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Red Onion, Chile, and Gram Flour Bread Recipe

Gram flour, or besan, is made from ground chickpeas and can be found in large supermarkets and Asian stores. It gives these tasty, spiced flatbreads a lovely...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Red Onion, Chile, and Gram Flour Bread Recipe

8 pieces

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

792Calories
20 gProtein
29 gFat
112 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 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
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cumin + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Onion + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Flour + cumintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,286 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together989 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Flour + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cumin, sunflower):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cumin, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.