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Coconut Tapioca in Papaya Bowl

"Coconut tapioca is one of my favorites of all time. I also love the tropical fruit papaya. When I combined these two things together, it did make my day. If you are not a big fan of papaya, you may skip the papaya bowl; coconut tapioca by itself would be a good treat to your guests too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tapioca pearl and coconut work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add the tapioca pearls, and simmer over medium heat for about 12 minutes, stirring often, until most pearls are translucent.

  2. Cover the pot, remove it from the heat, and let the pearls rest for 10 minutes until fully translucent with no white centers.

  3. Drain the tapioca in a sieve and rinse briefly with cool water.

  4. Return the tapioca to the pot, add the coconut milk, and warm over low heat for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring, until heated through.

  5. Place the papaya halves on serving plates with the cut sides up, where the seeds were removed.

  6. Spoon the warm coconut tapioca into the papaya halves and serve right away.

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. Tapioca pearl + coconuttop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Coconut + papayatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Coconut + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Milk + papayatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Tapioca pearl + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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