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Beet-berry Sorbet Recipe

This is (deliberately) not overly-sweet - so feel free to up the sugar content to 150g or even a little more.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Beet-berry Sorbet Recipe

6 people
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr 20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

125Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Beetrootnot in our table0
Syrupnot 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 lovefood. 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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Beetroot + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together574 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Beetroot + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together780 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, syrup, lemon):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Beetrootthe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, syrup, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.