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Festive Nut Bowl

"Festive Nut Bowl is so easy to make. Dried cranberries add color and a burst of tartness to the mixed nuts. It's always a big hit during cocktail hour."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Festive Nut Bowl

Why it works: Macadamia nut and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Festive Nut Bowl

4 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

378Calories
12 gProtein
26 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Macadamia Nutnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Macadamia nut + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Macadamia nut + nutstop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (macadamia nut, pistachio):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Mixed nutsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against macadamia nut, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.