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Yogurt Trifle with Pomegranate, Pear, and Dates Recipe

An ordinary breakfast parfait goes exotic with dried and fresh fruit.This recipe was featured as part of our Fall Ingredients photo gallery.

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Why it works: Yogurt and pear work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

4-6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By chow. 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. Yogurt + peartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Pear + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Pomegranate + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Yogurt + pomegranatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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