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Mandarin Green Tea

A simple flavored green tea with Mandarin oranges and honey.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and honey work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, about 2 minutes.

  2. Remove the pan from the heat and add the green tea bag. Steep for 3 minutes.

  3. Remove and discard the tea bag.

  4. Squeeze the juice from the mandarin orange into the tea and stir.

  5. Stir in the honey until fully dissolved. Serve warm.

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. Mandarin orange + honeytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Green tea + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Green tea + mandarin orangetop 32% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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