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Coconut and Sticky Rice Pudding with Lime and Papaya Salad

Here’s a great dessert to end a Thai feast. You’ll need a visit to an Asian supermarket to source the sticky rice, lime leaves and papaya - and plenty of time for soaking the rice. Well worth it.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and mint match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 846 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Coconut and Sticky Rice Pudding with Lime and Papaya Salad

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

560Calories
8 gProtein
28 gFat
75 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Papayanot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Lime + minttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together846 recipes

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

  2. Coconut + papayatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Lime + papayatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

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

  4. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, coconut, milk, sugar, lime, papaya):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, coconut, milk, sugar, lime, papaya. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.