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Quick Mango Pudding

If you've taken time to make a special main course, why not take the pressure off and serve this simple but delicious pud

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Quick Mango Pudding

Why it works: Mango and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Quick Mango Pudding

Serves 6
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

213Calories
2 gProtein
11 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Passion 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. Mango + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

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

  2. Mango + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together160 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + passion fruittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cream + passion fruittop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Vanilla and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the passion fruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, vanilla, cream):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Passion fruitthe original

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