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Gasagage Payasa

"When I first visited my in-laws my mother-in-law had made gasagase payasa for us. I have been a huge fan of this dessert since then. I like it cold and thinned out with a little milk."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Saffron and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 342 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (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. Grind the poppy seeds, almonds and white rice in a blender or spice grinder into a coarse paste, adding a splash of water as needed to move the blades.

  2. Blend the grated coconut with a splash of water into a smooth paste and set it aside.

  3. Crush the saffron threads in a small bowl with a spoonful of hot water and let them steep for 5 minutes.

  4. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat.

  5. Stir the poppy seed paste into the boiling water, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 8 minutes, stirring often so it does not stick.

  6. Add the grated jaggery and stir until fully dissolved, about 3 minutes.

  7. Stir in the coconut paste and simmer for 4 minutes more until the payasa thickens slightly.

  8. Stir in the saffron water and ground cardamom, then remove from the heat. Serve warm or chilled.

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. Saffron + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Rice + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together628 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Almond + cardamomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together457 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + saffrontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, rice, coconut, sugar, saffron, cardamom):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, rice, coconut, sugar, saffron, cardamom. 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).