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Cherries in Almond Syrup Over Greek Yogurt

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 683 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Almond + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together683 recipes

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

  2. Almond + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sugar + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

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

  4. Almond + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Lemon + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Sugar and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, sugar, yogurt):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, sugar, yogurt. 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).