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Greek Yogurt Cheesecake with Pomegranate Syrup

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and pomegranate work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Yogurt + pomegranatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, gelatin, cream cheese, milk, yogurt, vanilla):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Bananabetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, gelatin, cream cheese, milk, yogurt, vanilla. 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).