Why it works: Banana and pepper work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 483 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓
Banana Cream Ice
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the bananas into thick slices.
Fill a small bowl with finely crushed ice, piling it high in the center.
Place the bowl on a dish covered with a napkin.
Arrange the sliced bananas overlapping each other around the bowl of ice.
Serve with coarse sea salt and Krona pepper.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Banana + peppertop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together483 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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