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Salted Chocolate Cups with Lemon-Cardamom Cream

A sinfully delicious chocolate, blueberries and cream dessert!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Salted Chocolate Cups with Lemon-Cardamom Cream

Why it works: Coconut and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 66 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salted Chocolate Cups with Lemon-Cardamom Cream

Serves 8
Prep1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

500Calories
5 gProtein
33 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
Chia Seednot in our table0
Waternot 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.

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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. Coconut + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

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

  3. Coconut + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Vanilla + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, vanilla, maple syrup, chia, cream, milk, cardamom):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, vanilla, maple syrup, chia, cream, milk, cardamom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.