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Ricotta with Blood Orange, Pistachio and Honey

Prepare this dessert in the winter, when blood oranges are at their peak. During other times of the year, vary the fruit with the season.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Ricotta cheese and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Ricotta cheese + pistachiotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Pistachio + pomegranatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Orange + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Pistachio + nutstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  5. Milk + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pomegranate

The recipe marks pomegranate as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, milk, ricotta cheese, pistachio, nuts, honey):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, milk, ricotta cheese, pistachio, nuts, honey. 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).