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Halloween Beetroot Pie Recipe

Oh the wonders of beetroot... here it's used in a sweet pie, mixed with sugar and spice to make a Halloween centrepiece.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,620 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Halloween Beetroot Pie Recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

185Calories
7 gProtein
11 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Pastrynot in our table0
Beetrootnot 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. Allspice + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,620 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Beetroot + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beetroot + allspicetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the allspice

The recipe marks allspice as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, egg, sugar, ginger, cream):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, egg, sugar, ginger, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.