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Frozen Bananas

"These cool treats are great on a hot day! Play around with the ingredients a little -- you can use almond butter, cashew butter, cashews, granola, or whatever sounds good!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 308 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: peanut (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. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Push one ice pop stick into the cut end of each of the 8 banana halves, about halfway in.

  3. Spread the peanut butter evenly over the flat cut face of each banana half.

  4. Freeze the banana halves on the lined sheet for 30 minutes, until the peanut butter is firm.

  5. Set a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the water. Add the chopped chocolate and stir until smooth and melted, about 5 minutes.

  6. Spread the chopped roasted peanuts on a plate.

  7. Dip each frozen banana half into the melted chocolate, covering the top and sides, then roll it in the chopped peanuts.

  8. Return the coated bananas to the lined sheet and freeze for at least 1 hour, until the chocolate is firm. Serve straight from the freezer.

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. Banana + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Peanut + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Banana + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,529 recipes

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

  4. Peanut + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Banana + chocolatetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, butter, chocolate):

  1. Peanutthe original
  2. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, butter, chocolate. 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).