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Orange Gelatin Salad

"A friend taught me to make this years ago - without a recipe. It is very quick and easy. The sweet, creamy salad is great as a cool, refreshing side dish or dessert."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Orange Gelatin Salad

Why it works: Mandarin orange and orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Orange Gelatin Salad

8 to 10 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

222Calories
13 gProtein
5 gFat
33 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
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Toppingnot 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. Mandarin orange + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Mandarin orange + cottage cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Cottage cheese + orangetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mandarin orange, cottage cheese):

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Vanillafits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mandarin orange, cottage cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.