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Mango Custard Pie

"Delicious! Use ripe mangoes for best results."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Mango Custard Pie

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 Custard Pie

1 - 9 inch pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

847Calories
29 gProtein
15 gFat
151 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Pie Crustnot 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. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

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

  2. Lime + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Mango + cinnamontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, evaporated milk, flour, sugar, cinnamon, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, evaporated milk, flour, sugar, cinnamon, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.