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Green Tea Frozen Yogurt with Sesame Brittle Shards

Frozen yogurt is really easy to make and lower in fat than ice cream. You can find 'matcha' green tea powder in healthfood stores

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Green Tea Frozen Yogurt with Sesame Brittle Shards

Why it works: Green tea and sesame work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Green Tea Frozen Yogurt with Sesame Brittle Shards

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Green tea + sesametop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + sesametop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,644 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + green teatop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, green tea):

  1. Sesamethe original
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits less well
  4. Walnutfits less well

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