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Uncle Bob's Soybean Bread

"I use an old large slow cooker for my mixing bowl, this way I don't need to dirty up a bunch of different bowls or counters. The soybeans and quinoa give this bread great texture. I use an electric coffee grinder to grind up the soybeans."

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Uncle Bob's Soybean Bread

Why it works: Flour and quinoa match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 108 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Uncle Bob's Soybean Bread

1 -9x5 inch loaf
Prep30 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

796Calories
21 gProtein
18 gFat
134 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soybeannot 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. Flour + quinoatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Quinoa + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Soybean + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Flour + olivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,871 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the soybean

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, flour, quinoa, olive):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Milletfits better
  4. Soybeanthe original

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