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Muscatel & Green Grape Granita Recipe

I love serving shot glasses of this refreshing granita as a palate cleanser with a cheese course. If you can't find Muscatel, a sweet Riesling will also be great...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 819 recipes. Both carry 1-p-menthene-8-thiol, which smells grapefruit. The science ↓

Muscatel & Green Grape Granita Recipe

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

148Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
33 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Green Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Dessert Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Grape + winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together819 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).

  2. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Grape + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  5. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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 lemon

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

  1. Applefits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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