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Roasted Chestnuts

"These can be served as a dessert with eggnog or vanilla ice cream or just served salted as a snack."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Roasted Chestnuts

Why it works: Chestnut and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Roasted Chestnuts

1 pound

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

108Calories
0 gProtein
12 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chestnutnot 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. Chestnut + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  3. Chestnut + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together965 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the chestnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Flaxseedfits better
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.