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10-Minute Blueberry-Chia Seed Jam

10-Minute Blueberry-Chia Seed Jam: No preservatives or pectin. Totally healthy and guilt free!

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Why it works: Chia and vanilla work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 93 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Add the blueberries and the maple syrup or agave nectar to a small saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Mash the berries with a fork or potato masher and simmer, stirring often, for about 5 minutes until juicy and slightly thickened.

  3. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the chia seeds and vanilla extract until evenly combined.

  4. Let the mixture stand for about 5 minutes, stirring once or twice, until it thickens into a spreadable jam.

  5. Spoon the jam into a clean jar, let it cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until ready to serve.

By tastykitchen. 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. Chia + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Maple syrup + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together752 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Maple syrup + chiatop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (maple syrup, chia):

  1. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against maple syrup, chia. 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).