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Asian Pear and Grapefruit Salad with Granita and Pear Sorbet

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Grapefruit and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Grapefruit + peartop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Bartlett pear + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  3. Syrup + gelatintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + gelatintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the bartlett pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, corn, syrup, sake, gelatin, grapefruit, pear):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Bartlett pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, corn, syrup, sake, gelatin, grapefruit, pear. 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).