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Chocolate Walnut Torte Recipe

Here's yet another delicious gluten-free kosher for Passover recipe; it is based on a recipe I found on epicurean.com. My husband was very enthusiastic about...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Agave and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate Walnut Torte Recipe

1 torte

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

280Calories
8 gProtein
17 gFat
23 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Agave + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chocolate + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Agave + chocolatetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Egg + walnuttop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + chocolatetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, agave, chocolate):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Walnutthe original

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