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5-Minute Pantry Pineapple Cream Pie

A sweet, tart and refreshing pineapple cream no-bake pie that comes together in less than 5 minutes with pantry staples.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 469 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Drain the crushed pineapple very well, pressing out as much juice as possible.

  2. In a bowl, stir together the drained pineapple, sweetened condensed milk and fresh lime juice until evenly combined.

  3. Pour the mixture into the graham cracker pie crust and spread it level.

  4. Refrigerate the pie for at least 2 hours until firm.

  5. Just before serving, spread the Cool Whip over the top of the pie.

  6. Thinly slice the lime or kiwi (optional) and arrange the slices on top for decoration.

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. Pineapple + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Condensed milk + limetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + condensed milktop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

The recipe marks lime as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, condensed milk):

  1. Bananabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, condensed milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).