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Torta De Mango

A mellow pudding to round off a Cuban themed meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Torta De Mango

Why it works: Mango and strawberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Torta De Mango

Serves 6
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

615Calories
8 gProtein
35 gFat
74 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Saucenot 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 + strawberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Biscuit + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, butter, sugar, cream, cream cheese, strawberry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, butter, sugar, cream, cream cheese, strawberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.