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Roasted Pears with Honey, Bay and Greek Yogurt

Fresh bay leaves contain unique hints of pine and white pepper. In this recipe, they lend their intriguing aroma, usually reserved for savory dishes, to a simple dessert of honeyed pears flavored with almond-scented amaretto, toasty nuts and tart Greek-style yogurt.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Pear + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Pear + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Almond + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

  5. Butter + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,321 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, honey, butter, yogurt):

  1. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peasabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, honey, butter, yogurt. 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).