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Honey-Broiled Strawberries and Ricotta

When you broil strawberries, they have a stronger flavor, and a sourness, which is a nice balance to the creaminess of the ricotta and the sweetness of the honey.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and honey work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 130 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By bonappetit. 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. Pistachio + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Lemon + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pistachio + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pistachio + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Honey + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pistachio

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

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Sesameabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, lemon, coriander, sugar. 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).