Name: Amaretto-Spiked Vegan Chocolate Mousse Recipe
Yield: Makes 6 decadent servings.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup organic chocolate soy milk (for this recipe I like to use Vitasoy Rich Chocolate Soy Milk); 9 or 10 ounce bag of semisweet vegan chocolate chips (I've had good success with Tropical Source or Sunspire Brand all-natural brands, NOT carob chips); 12 ounces silken tofu; 1/4 cup Amaretto or almond-flavored liquor; 1/4 teaspoon natural pure almond extract (I use the Flavorganics Almond Extract for this recipe)

Why it works: Soy milk and tofu share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Amaretto-Spiked Vegan Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Makes 6 decadent servings.

Ingredients

1/2 cup organic chocolate soy milk (for this recipe I like to use Vitasoy Rich Chocolate Soy Milk)
9 or 10 ounce bag of semisweet vegan chocolate chips (I've had good success with Tropical Source or Sunspire Brand all-natural brands, NOT carob chips)
12 ounces silken tofu
1/4 cup Amaretto or almond-flavored liquor
1/4 teaspoon natural pure almond extract (I use the Flavorganics Almond Extract for this recipe)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

387Calories

18 gProtein

22 gFat

31 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Soy Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Tofu	100g firm	76
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Carob	not in our table	0
Liquor	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.

Soy milk + tofutop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Soy milk + almondtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,733 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Tofu + almondtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together49 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Chocolate + soy milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together49 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, soy milk, tofu):

Cashew nutfits better
Peanutfits better
Sesamefits about as well
Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, soy milk, tofu. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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