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Fresh Kaffir Lime and Coconut Posset and Cardamom Butter Biscuits

Fresh kaffir lime leaves add a zingy burst of citrus flavour to this posset, a creamy mousse-like dessert, served here with mango salsa and cardamom butter biscuits

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 214 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Coconut + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Lemon + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together405 recipes

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

  3. Lime + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

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

  4. Lime + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

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

  5. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, lime, sugar, coconut, flour, butter, cardamom):

  1. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, lime, sugar, coconut, flour, butter, cardamom. 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).