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Honey & Bay Roast Fruit Salad

Great with ice cream or thick yogurt

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 32 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Honey & Bay Roast Fruit Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

242Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
36 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Nectarinenot in our table0
Fruitnot 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 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. Plum + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Fig + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

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

  3. Fig + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Plum + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together446 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Plum + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, fig, honey, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Clovethe original
  4. Rosemaryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, fig, honey, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.