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Apricot Walnut Stuffed Dates

A healthy and sophisticated party food! Vegan, gluten free and sugar-free!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and dates work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 303 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 16
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Finely chop the dried apricots and walnuts by hand, or pulse them in a food processor until finely chopped and crumbly.

  2. Add the vanilla extract, cinnamon and honey to the apricot and walnut mixture and stir well until it holds together.

  3. Taste the filling. If the apricots are hard or dry, stir in a little more honey until the mixture is soft and easy to press.

  4. Open each pitted date along its natural slit and fill it with the apricot and walnut mixture, pressing gently so the date closes around the filling.

  5. Arrange the stuffed dates on a plate and serve at room temperature, or chill briefly to firm the filling before serving.

By tastykitchen. 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. Walnut + datestop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apricot + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Vanilla + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Apricot + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-phenethyl alcohol (floral).

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