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Creamy Saffron Yogurt

This creamy dessert is called shrikhand and is a must in many Indian houses on the west coast. It's a whole lot healthier than most Indian desserts - dig in!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and saffron work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Yogurt + saffrontop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cardamom + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cardamom + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Saffron + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Cardamom + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, cardamom, sugar, saffron, milk, mango):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Pistachiothe original
  3. Chickpeaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, cardamom, sugar, saffron, milk, mango. 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).