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Cottage Cheese Apricot Pie

A quick, easy, healthy cheese cake

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Apricot Pie

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

542Calories
43 gProtein
24 gFat
39 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
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
Pastrynot 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. Cottage cheese + yogurttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Apricot + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

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

  4. Milk + yogurttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,361 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Cottage cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cottage cheese, egg, sugar, milk, yogurt):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cottage cheese, egg, sugar, milk, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.