Skip to main content

Grilled Peach & Amaretti Parfaits

Grilled peaches and a mascarpone cheese mixture give this parfait a cheesecake-like flavor that’s a perfect light summer dessert.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Grilled Peach & Amaretti Parfaits

Why it works: Vanilla and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Grilled Peach & Amaretti Parfaits

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

518Calories
28 gProtein
35 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
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 tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Yogurt + peachtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Yogurt + minttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mint

The recipe marks mint as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, yogurt, vanilla, lemon, peach, butter):

  1. Peppermintfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, yogurt, vanilla, lemon, peach, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.