Name: Matrimony De Luxe
Prep time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 ripe mango; 2 kiwi fruit; 2 ripe passionfruit, pulp and seeds; 1 large piece preserved stem ginger; 1½ tbsp ginger syrup (from the jar of preserved stem ginger; ½ lime; or ice cream, to serve double cream

Why it works: Mango and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Matrimony De Luxe

Serves 4

Prep30 min

Ingredients

1 ripe mango
2 kiwi fruit
2 ripe passionfruit, pulp and seeds
1 large piece preserved stem ginger
1½ tbsp ginger syrup (from the jar of preserved stem ginger
½ lime
or ice cream, to serve double cream

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

256Calories

3 gProtein

12 gFat

40 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 10 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Mango	1 cup diced (165g)	99
Ice Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Kiwi	1 medium (69g)	42
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Fruit	not in our table	0
Passionfruit	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Syrup	not in our table	0

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.

Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together506 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Mango + passionfruittop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Mango + gingertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together280 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the passionfruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, ginger, syrup, lime, cream):

Coconutfits better
Pineapplefits better
Orangefits better
Passionfruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, ginger, syrup, lime, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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