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Baked Pears with Vanilla Yogurt and Granola

"This dessert is a mix of great tastes and textures: baked pears drizzled with honey and topped off with crunchy granola, and cooled down on the yogurt. Made with nutrient-rich, low-fat yogurt, this dish does contain lactose, but the live and active cultures in yogurt help with digestion – making it a friendly option for those who are lactose intolerant."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Wash the pears, cut them in half lengthwise, and scoop out the cores with a spoon.

  2. Arrange the pear halves cut side up in a baking dish just large enough to hold them in one layer.

  3. Pour the apple juice and water into the bottom of the dish around the pears, then drizzle the honey over the pear halves.

  4. Bake for about 30 to 35 minutes, spooning the pan liquid over the pears every 10 minutes, until the pears are tender when pierced with a knife.

  5. Let the pears cool for 5 minutes in the dish. Spoon the yogurt into bowls, top with a pear half and some pan juices, and sprinkle with granola.

  6. If using, garnish each serving with mint leaves.

By allrecipes. 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. Pear + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Pear + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together648 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Pear + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pear + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

The recipe marks mint as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, apple, honey, vanilla, yogurt):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, apple, honey, vanilla, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).