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Yogurt and Lemon Thyme Panna Cotta with Summer Berry Soup

By bunkycooks · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,973 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

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By bunkycooks. 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. Lemon + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Vanilla + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Yogurt + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,191 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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 beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, sugar, gelatin, vanilla, rum, lemon, thyme):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Chestnutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, sugar, gelatin, vanilla, rum, lemon, thyme. 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).