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Easy Pain Au Chocolat Recipe

Chef Laurent Tourondel is known for infusing American cooking with his French sensibility. In this recipe he takes the American love for convenience and makes...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 2 ingredients
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Easy Pain Au Chocolat Recipe

Why it works: Hazelnut and spread work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 74 recipes. Both carry ethyl acetate, which smells pineapple, fruity. The science ↓

Easy Pain Au Chocolat Recipe

2 servings

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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. Hazelnut + spreadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl acetate (pineapple, fruity).

  2. Hazelnut + cocoatop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Cocoa + spreadtop 67% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl acetate (pineapple, fruity).

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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hazelnut, spread):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, spread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.