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Hot Pants Recipe

This variation on the classic margarita swaps lime juice for grapefruit.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Hot Pants Recipe

Why it works: Lime and peppermint match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 806 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Hot Pants Recipe

1 drink

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

112Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
29 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grapefruit Juice1/2 fruit (123g)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Lime + pepperminttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together806 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lime + grapefruittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Peppermint + grapefruittop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Grapefruit + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together309 recipes

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

  5. Peppermint + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the peppermint

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

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

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