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Pumpkin Brown Butter Pecan Pancakes - Naturally Ella

While I was tumbling down the pinterest hole, I saw someone had pinned my brown butter pancakes. I took a second, only one second, and thought to myself: “I need to make these again, but with pumpkin!” You really can’t go wrong with the flavor of brown butter and pecans, but add pumpkin and it’s [...]

By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Pumpkin Brown Butter Pecan Pancakes - Naturally Ella

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pumpkin Brown Butter Pecan Pancakes - Naturally Ella

8-10 pancakes
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

886Calories
28 gProtein
29 gFat
125 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 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
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Pumpkinnot 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 naturallyella. 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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Wheat + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Pecans + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Vanilla + pecanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, vanilla, wheat, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, egg):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, vanilla, wheat, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.