Name: Blackberry Limeade Recipe
Yield: Serves 8.
Ingredients: 4 cups fresh blackberries, or unsweetened frozen blackberries, thawed, plus extra for garnish; 1 cup turbinado sugar, natural cane sugar, or grated palm sugar; 1 kaffir lime leaf, crushed, or 1 tablespoon grated lime zest; 1 green cardamom pod, lightly crushed; 1/2 cup fresh Key lime juice (about 8 -12 limes); Thin lime slices, for garnish; 2 cups ginger ale (hs note: or sparkling water); Ice cubes

Why it works: Lime and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Blackberry Limeade Recipe

Serves 8.

Ingredients

4 cups fresh blackberries, or unsweetened frozen blackberries, thawed, plus extra for garnish
1 cup turbinado sugar, natural cane sugar, or grated palm sugar
1 kaffir lime leaf, crushed, or 1 tablespoon grated lime zest
1 green cardamom pod, lightly crushed
1/2 cup fresh Key lime juice (about 8 -12 limes)
Thin lime slices, for garnish
2 cups ginger ale (hs note: or sparkling water)
Ice cubes

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

141Calories

3 gProtein

1 gFat

36 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Blackberry	1 cup (144g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Kaffir Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Cardamom	1 tsp ground (2g)	6
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Leaf	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By 101cookbooks. 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.

Lime + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together190 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cardamom + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,114 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together14,054 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Sugar + cardamomtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,044 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 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 lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cardamom, ginger):

Lemonfits about as well
Limethe original
Orangefits less well
Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cardamom, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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