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Roast Pineapple Galette with a Ginger Nut Crumble Topping

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 559 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts (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. Heat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Peel the pineapple, cut out the core, and slice the flesh about 1/4 inch (6 mm) thick. Squeeze the half lemon over the slices and toss gently.

  3. Put the ginger nut biscuits in a bag and crush them with a rolling pin into coarse crumbs. Melt the butter, then stir in the crumbs, chopped toasted almonds or hazelnuts, and sugar until clumpy.

  4. Unroll the puff pastry onto the lined sheet and score a border about 2 inches (5 cm) in from the edge without cutting through.

  5. Arrange the pineapple slices in overlapping rings over the center of the pastry, inside the scored border.

  6. Scatter the crumble mixture evenly over the pineapple, then fold the pastry border up and over the edge of the fruit, pleating as you go.

  7. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, until the pastry is deep golden and the pineapple is caramelized at the edges.

  8. Let the galette cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before slicing.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pineapple + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Ginger + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 recipes

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

  3. Almond + biscuittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Almond + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

  5. Biscuit + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, almond, ginger, biscuit, butter, sugar):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, almond, ginger, biscuit, butter, sugar. 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).