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Hearty Multigrain Bread

"This bread is a solid textured loaf appropriate for sandwiches, spreads or eating with a meal. It has two kinds of grains and three kinds of seeds in it. It is solid and hardy; yet light and sweet."

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Hearty Multigrain Bread

Why it works: Millet and quinoa share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hearty Multigrain Bread

1 - 1 1/2 pound loaf
Prep5 min
Cook2 hr 55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1317Calories
37 gProtein
56 gFat
168 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Milk Powder1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Flax Seed1 tbsp (10g) ground55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Milletnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Millet + quinoatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sunflower + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Sesame + quinoatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + millettop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

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

  5. Sunflower + quinoatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sunflower, millet, quinoa, bread, flour, wheat):

  1. Flaxseedfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Sesamethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sunflower, millet, quinoa, bread, flour, wheat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.