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Roasted Banana Plum Muffins

Moist banana and plum flavored muffins topped with a walnut crust.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Roasted Banana Plum Muffins

Why it works: Banana and plum share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Roasted Banana Plum Muffins

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1094Calories
47 gProtein
30 gFat
161 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Toppingnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Banana + plumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Banana + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

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

  3. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Banana + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Flour + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, flour, sugar, egg, milk, yogurt, plum):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, flour, sugar, egg, milk, yogurt, plum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.