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Prairie Paté

This Prarie Pate is a take on rice cereal treats—studded with pork cracklin's— and will sustain you during car rides and afternoon hikes.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and macadamia nut work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bonappetit. 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. Sunflower + macadamia nuttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Macadamia nut + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

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

  3. Oats + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together552 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Honey + oatstop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the macadamia nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, honey, whey, oats, sunflower, almond, pork):

  1. Flaxseedbetter flavor fit
  2. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, honey, whey, oats, sunflower, almond, pork. 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).