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Mango Lassi Recipe

This cooling drink is popular in India. It can be made with a variety of fruit (or no fruit at all), but always contains yogurt and water. This version also contains...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Mango Lassi Recipe

Why it works: Lime and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mango Lassi Recipe

2 drinks

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

265Calories
19 gProtein
2 gFat
49 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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.

  1. Lime + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

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

  2. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Mango + cardamomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Mango + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Yogurt + cardamomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, milk, yogurt, sugar, cardamom):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, milk, yogurt, sugar, cardamom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.