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Mango Coconut Sauce

"This very simple recipe for mango coconut cream sauce has a dash of lime. It can be served over grilled chicken with rice or egg noodles"

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Mango Coconut Sauce

Why it works: Mango and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Mango Coconut Sauce

3 cups
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

345Calories
3 gProtein
32 gFat
14 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

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. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

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

  2. Mango + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together221 recipes

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

  3. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  5. Mango + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, coconut, milk, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, coconut, milk, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.