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Dairy Free Whole Wheat Pancakes

"These healthy pancakes with a hint of almond are delicious. They're thick and fluffy and they really stick to your ribs. Serve warm with maple syrup or peach jam. Leftovers are great served cold with a little peach jam spread on them, yum!"

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Why it works: Wheat and soy milk share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

4 to 6 serving
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, tree nuts, soy (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. Whisk the whole wheat pastry flour, wheat germ, soy flour, white sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.

  2. In a second bowl, beat the eggs, then whisk in the canola oil, almond extract and soy milk until smooth.

  3. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined; a few small lumps are fine. Let the batter rest for 5 minutes.

  4. Heat a griddle or large nonstick skillet over medium heat and lightly grease it with a little of the canola oil.

  5. Pour a ladleful of batter per pancake onto the hot surface and cook until bubbles form on top and the edges look set, about 2 to 3 minutes.

  6. Flip each pancake and cook 1 to 2 minutes more until golden and cooked through, with the egg set in the center. Keep finished pancakes warm and add a little oil as needed between batches.

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. Wheat + soy milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Wheat + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Flour + soy milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + canola oiltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together113 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, sugar, egg, canola oil, soy milk):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Flaxseedabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, sugar, egg, canola oil, soy milk. 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).