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Banana Bread with Amaranth Flour

The traditional banana bread but now with amaranth flour.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Amaranth and banana work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

  2. In a bowl, whisk the whole wheat flour, amaranth flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon and salt until evenly combined.

  3. In a large bowl, mash the very ripe bananas until mostly smooth. Whisk in the sour cream, vanilla extract, sugar, eggs and canola oil until well blended.

  4. Stir the dry ingredients into the banana mixture just until no dry streaks remain. Fold in the toasted chopped pecans.

  5. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan and smooth the top.

  6. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the top is golden. The eggs must be fully set.

  7. Cool the loaf in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a rack and let it cool completely before slicing.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Amaranth + bananatop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + amaranthtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  5. Wheat + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together537 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, amaranth, cinnamon, banana, cream, vanilla):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Flaxseedbetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, amaranth, cinnamon, banana, cream, vanilla. 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).