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Taro Bubble Tea Pudding Pie with a Fortune Cookie Crust Recipe

This is delicious! I thought of this recipe when I got a delicious Taro bubble tea with my boyfriend (whos birthday was coming up,) and I thought if I could...

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Taro and tapioca pearl work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 4 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

A whole pie.

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Taro + tapioca pearltop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Vanilla + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,983 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Vanilla + tarotop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tapioca pearl

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, milk, taro, butter):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Arrowrootbetter flavor fit
  4. Tapioca pearlthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, milk, taro, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).