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Slow Cooker Fruit, Nuts, and Spice Oatmeal

"A delicious, creamy oatmeal that's slow-cooked overnight with apples, cinnamon, cranberries, almonds, and pecans. A great way to wake up in the morning! Serve with brown sugar and milk. Enjoy. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Fruit, Nuts, and Spice Oatmeal

Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Fruit, Nuts, and Spice Oatmeal

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

771Calories
18 gProtein
44 gFat
86 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Waternot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Pienot 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. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Oats + pecanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together289 recipes

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

  3. Pecans + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Cinnamon + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,744 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, almond, pecans, milk, cinnamon, pumpkin, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

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