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Adzuki Bean Mango Stir Fry with Cilantro Lime Coconut Sauce

"Delicious and tropical. Loosely based on the Kashi Black Bean Mango frozen dinner. Serve with forbidden (black) rice and steamed broccoli."

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Why it works: Lime and peanut oil work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 99 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep25 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

  • Sauce
  • Stir Fry

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Make the sauce: in a blender or small bowl, combine the coconut milk, cilantro, lime juice, minced ginger, minced garlic and agave nectar. Blend or whisk until smooth, then set aside.

  2. Heat the peanut oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat until shimmering.

  3. Add the red onion, green bell pepper and carrot. Stir fry for 4 to 5 minutes until the vegetables are crisp-tender.

  4. Add the drained adzuki beans and stir fry for 2 minutes until heated through.

  5. Add the mango strips and stir fry gently for 1 to 2 minutes, just until warmed so they keep their shape.

  6. Pour in the cilantro lime coconut sauce, stir to coat everything, and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes until slightly thickened.

  7. Serve hot.

By allrecipes. 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. Lime + peanut oiltop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Lime + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  5. Coconut + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together221 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, milk, lime, ginger, garlic, agave, peanut oil):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, milk, lime, ginger, garlic, agave, peanut oil. 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).