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'Guilt-free Gourmet' Sticky Toffee Pudding

This gluten-free, dairy-free and refined sugar free version of sticky toffee pudding creates an amazing deep, toffee taste - wickedly good!

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'Guilt-free Gourmet' Sticky Toffee Pudding

Why it works: Sunflower and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

'Guilt-free Gourmet' Sticky Toffee Pudding

Makes 6-8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1726Calories
41 gProtein
73 gFat
229 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Soy Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Spreadnot in our table0
Syrupnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Sunflower + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

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

  2. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Rice + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, butter, sunflower, spread, coconut, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, butter, sunflower, spread, coconut, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.