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Coconut and Pistachio Baklava

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 24 pieces

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Coconut + pistachiotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Orange + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together936 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Butter + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Coconut + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together583 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (phyllo dough, butter, coconut, pistachio, sugar, orange):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against phyllo dough, butter, coconut, pistachio, sugar, orange. 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).