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Lemon Chia Fudge

"I use vegan chocolate chips, raw walnuts, and organic raisins, chia seeds, and vanilla extract to make this delicious fudge."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chia and lemon work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (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 an 8-inch (20 cm) square pan with parchment paper. In a small bowl, stir the chia seeds into the lemon juice and let stand for 10 minutes until thickened.

  2. Set a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, making sure the bottom does not touch the water. Add the chocolate chips and stir until fully melted and smooth, about 3 minutes.

  3. Remove the bowl from the heat. Stir in the vanilla extract, the chia and lemon mixture, the raisins and the walnuts until evenly combined.

  4. Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.

  5. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Lift out using the parchment, then cut into 12 squares.

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. Chia + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Chocolate + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Chia + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Raisin + vanillatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together782 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, chia, lemon, vanilla, walnut):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, chia, lemon, vanilla, walnut. 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).