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Chocolate and Ginger Tart with Caramelised Oranges and Red Berry Soup

Show off to your friends with this dramatic dessert of chocolate tart served with orange sauce, caramelised oranges, almond-flecked tuiles and mini glasses of red berry soup!

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 27 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chocolate and Ginger Tart with Caramelised Oranges and Red Berry Soup

Serves 10
Prep2 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1069Calories
24 gProtein
29 gFat
181 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

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. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, sugar, chocolate, egg, orange, almond):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Allspicefits about as well
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, sugar, chocolate, egg, orange, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.