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Gluten-free Baked Apple Charlotte Recipe

I love this combination of ingredients – apples mixed with brown sugar, dried fruit and nuts – in all its guises, whether crumbles, strudels or simple baked apples.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 129 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Gluten-free Baked Apple Charlotte Recipe

6 people
Prep20 min
Cook55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1391Calories
39 gProtein
43 gFat
215 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Spreadnot in our table0
Waternot 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 lovefood. 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 + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Dates + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Walnut + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (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 (sunflower, spread, walnut, apple, flour, rice, milk):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Datesthe original

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