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Sweet Yogurt Sundae with Saffron and Pistachios Recipe

Yogurt makes a simple and attractive sweet course or cooling treat. This version of sweetened yogurt from Bengal is called mishti doi, doi being Bengali for yogurt...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Saffron and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 88 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

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

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Saffron + cardamomtop 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. Yogurt + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together169 recipes

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

  5. Yogurt + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,358 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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