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Quick Cranberry Chutney

"This goes together in minutes and is actually better if prepared the day before you serve. It is great with chicken, turkey, and pork. I use this with grilled herb pork tenderloin served on cornmeal biscuits for special appetizer occasions. Garnish with additional chopped green onions, if desired. If you want more heat in the chutney, keep some of the jalapeno seeds and ribs as you chop."

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Why it works: Berry and pineapple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Drain the crushed pineapple well, then squeeze it dry with your hands or a clean towel so the chutney does not turn watery.

  2. Put the whole berry cranberry sauce in a medium saucepan over medium heat and stir until it starts to soften and loosen.

  3. Add the drained pineapple, brown sugar replacement, ground ginger and sea salt to the saucepan and stir to combine.

  4. Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring often, until slightly thickened.

  5. Remove the pan from the heat and let the chutney cool for about 10 minutes.

  6. Stir in the chopped green onions and the minced jalapeno, then taste and adjust the salt if needed.

  7. Transfer the chutney to a clean container, cover, and refrigerate until cold before serving.

By allrecipes. 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. Berry + pineappletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Berry + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cranberry + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cranberry + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (berry, cranberry, sauce, pineapple, sugar, ginger, onion):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Mintbetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against berry, cranberry, sauce, pineapple, sugar, ginger, onion. 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).