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Umm Ali

"Umm Ali is a delicious traditional Egyptian dessert equivalent to North America's bread pudding. You can serve it warm with a scoop of French vanilla ice cream."

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Umm Ali

Why it works: Almond and pistachio match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 693 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Umm Ali

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

938Calories
22 gProtein
71 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Pastrynot 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. Almond + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together693 recipes

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

  2. Pine + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

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

  3. Nuts + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

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

  4. Almond + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

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

  5. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, vanilla, raisin, almond, pine, pistachio):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Brazil nutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, vanilla, raisin, almond, pine, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.