Name: The Simple Chef's® Sweet Apple Pie Tostones Recipe
Yield: about 12 Sweet Cherry Pie Tostones
Ingredients: 3 Green Plantains; 2 cans of Cherry, Lemon, Apple Pie Filling. Your favorite brand; 1 bottle of Whipped Cream. Your favorite brand; 8 ounces of Chocolate to melt. Your favorite brand. Melt whatever way you are use to melting chocolate.; Frying four tostones at a time, enough Oil to cover the plantains while frying in either a deep fryer or frying pan; A Green Plantain Toston Relleno cup molder. I prefer the Tostobueno, the Ultimate Tostonera®

Why it works: Cherry and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 295 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

The Simple Chef's® Sweet Apple Pie Tostones Recipe

about 12 Sweet Cherry Pie Tostones

Ingredients

3 Green Plantains
2 cans of Cherry, Lemon, Apple Pie Filling. Your favorite brand
1 bottle of Whipped Cream. Your favorite brand
8 ounces of Chocolate to melt. Your favorite brand. Melt whatever way you are use to melting chocolate.
Frying four tostones at a time, enough Oil to cover the plantains while frying in either a deep fryer or frying pan
A Green Plantain Toston Relleno cup molder. I prefer the Tostobueno, the Ultimate Tostonera®

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

519Calories

4 gProtein

28 gFat

68 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 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
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Plantain	not in our table	0
Pie Filling	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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Cherry + appletop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together295 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Cherry + lemontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,301 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Cherry + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together576 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Lemon + appletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,551 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cherry, apple, cream, chocolate):

Vanillafits better
Strawberryfits better
Pearfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, apple, cream, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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