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Chocolate-Pecan Pudding Pie with Nut Crust Recipe

Coming home from Memphis a few years ago, I stumbled on an immediately mouthwatering recipe for Chocolate Pecan Pie (in of all places the airport!). The recipe...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and arrowroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 179 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate-Pecan Pudding Pie with Nut Crust Recipe

1 pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1155Calories
19 gProtein
40 gFat
182 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pastrynot in our table0
Arrowrootnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 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. Almond + arrowroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + arrowroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together525 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Almond + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Coconut + arrowroottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, pecans, wheat, flour, coconut, arrowroot, banana):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, pecans, wheat, flour, coconut, arrowroot, banana. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.