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Baked Chocolate Pudding

This pudding is chocolate heaven! The original recipe idea for it came from my mate Ben, when he was head chef at Monte's. I've changed it round a bit to make it easier to make at home.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and coffee match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,497 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By jamieoliver. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chocolate + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  2. Cocoa + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Chocolate + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Chocolate + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Almond + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, cocoa, coffee, butter, egg, sugar, rice):

  1. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Almondthe original
  4. Nutsabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, cocoa, coffee, butter, egg, sugar, rice. 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).