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Doughnut Recipe

Delicious cinnamon-dusted doughnuts with warm chocolate sauce from Nicola Graimes

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 698 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Doughnut Recipe

6 people
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1124Calories
30 gProtein
42 gFat
155 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
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Olive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Orange + sunflowertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Flour + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, sugar, olive, flour, sunflower, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, sugar, olive, flour, sunflower, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.