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Peanut Butter Granola

"I have a master granola recipe that I tweak and experiment with. This is my favorite variation so far! Not too sweet, and chock full of tasty ingredients. You can use an assortment of nuts in place of the walnuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Peanut Butter Granola

Why it works: Wheat and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Peanut Butter Granola

12 cups
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1396Calories
37 gProtein
69 gFat
162 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk Powder1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Wheat + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Walnut + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Oats + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  4. Oats + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together522 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Wheat + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Flaxseedfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, wheat, flour, milk powder, coconut, sugar, canola oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.