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Roasted Stone Fruits with Vanilla

This compote is delicious served warm with ice cream, or cold for breakfast with yogurt

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Roasted Stone Fruits with Vanilla

Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Roasted Stone Fruits with Vanilla

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

154Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Nectarinenot 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. Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Cardamom + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Vanilla + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Vanilla + cardamomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vanilla, cardamom, apricot, peach):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vanilla, cardamom, apricot, peach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.