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Cochon's Satsuma Mojito Recipe

Muddling a whole satsuma orange supplies this cocktail from Cochon chef Donald Link with enough flavorful oils and sweet juice to make you forget there's booze...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and mandarin orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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1 drink
Cook5 min

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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. Mint + mandarin orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

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

  2. Mint + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together846 recipes

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

  3. Mandarin orange + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mint, lime):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mint, lime. 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).