Why it works: Banana and pepper work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 483 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓
Banana Cantaloup
Ingredients
Directions
Chill the bananas on ice for at least 12 hours.
Remove the skins and cut the bananas into thick slices.
Fill a 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Banana + peppertop 15% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together483 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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