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Egg Halwa

"A delicious dessert for cold winter nights. You can add vanilla if you feel it tastes too eggy. It's a little heavy, so even a small portion is enough to satisfy your sweet tooth."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 88,465 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Lightly crush the cardamom pods and simmer them in the milk over low heat for 5 minutes. Strain out the pods and keep the milk warm.

  2. Melt the shortening in a heavy pan over medium-low heat. Add the semolina and stir for 8 minutes until golden and fragrant.

  3. Whisk the milk powder and sugar into the warm cardamom milk until dissolved, then slowly pour it into the semolina, stirring constantly.

  4. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 15 minutes until the mixture thickens.

  5. Whisk the beaten eggs in a small bowl. Gradually stir in a ladle of the hot mixture to warm them.

  6. Pour the egg mixture back into the pan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 13 minutes until thick and it reaches 160°F (71°C).

  7. Remove from the heat and let rest for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve warm.

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. Milk + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cardamom + semolinatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Milk + milk powdertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

  4. Cardamom + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together534 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cardamom + milk powdertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cardamom

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, egg, sugar, semolina, milk powder):

  1. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cardamomthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, sugar, semolina, milk powder. 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).