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Chilled Tapioca Pearls with Sweet Coconut & Melon

Looking back through my blog stats, this is by far the most popular recipe searched. There aren't a lot of Chinese cookbooks that feature this recipe, I wonder why? Its such a beautiful, exotic des...

By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and melon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-undecalactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

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Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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By steamykitchen. 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 + melontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Milk + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + tapioca pearltop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Milk + melontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Sugar + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk share little aroma chemistry, yet 77,855 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