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Paleo Persimmon Pie

"This is an uncooked version of a yummy persimmon pie. It's an excellent dessert for those following a paleo or low-sugar diet. It's delicious!"

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Agave and persimmon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 slices
Prep30 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. Lightly grease a 9-inch (23 cm) pie dish with the olive oil.

  2. Pulse the 3 cups pecans and 20 pitted dates in a food processor until finely crumbly and sticking together when pressed, about 1 to 2 minutes.

  3. Press the pecan-date mixture evenly into the bottom and up the sides of the pie dish. Refrigerate while you make the filling.

  4. Halve the ripe persimmons, scoop out the flesh with a spoon, and discard the skins and any seeds.

  5. Blend the persimmon flesh with the agave nectar until completely smooth, about 1 minute.

  6. Pour the persimmon filling into the chilled crust and smooth the top with a spatula.

  7. Refrigerate the pie for at least 2 hours until the filling is set and firm.

  8. Scatter the 2 tablespoons chopped pecans over the top and dust with the ground cinnamon just before slicing into 8 pieces.

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. Agave + persimmontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Persimmon + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Agave + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pecans + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,047 recipes

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

  5. Dates + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pecans, agave, persimmon, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pecans, agave, persimmon, cinnamon. 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).