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Rhubarb and Pistachios Over Thick Yogurt

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rhubarb and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. 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)

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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. Rhubarb + pistachiotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cardamom + nutmegtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together249 recipes

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

  3. Cardamom + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Cardamom + rosetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rhubarb, cardamom, honey, vanilla, rose, yogurt, pistachio):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rhubarb, cardamom, honey, vanilla, rose, yogurt, pistachio. 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).