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Crema De Papaya Recipe

A very popular and easy Brazilian dessert.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and black currant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Crema De Papaya Recipe

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

63Calories
0 gProtein
5 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Papayanot in our table0
Black Currantnot 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 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. Vanilla + black curranttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  2. Papaya + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  4. Papaya + black curranttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

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

  5. Cream + black curranttop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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 papaya

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

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Papayathe original

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