Name: Banana Bread with Walnut Crumble
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: ¼ cups FOR THE WALNUT CRUMBLE:; ¼ cups All-purpose Flour; ⅓ cups Light Brown Sugar, Packed; ½ teaspoons Quick Cooking Oats; ⅛ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon; ⅓ cups Salt; ¼ cups Chopped Walnuts; 4 whole Coconut Oil In Solid Form, Or Cold, Cubed Butter (You May Need To Put Coconut Oil In The Fridge For An Hour Or So If You Haven't Been Storing It In Solid Form); ⅓ cups FOR THE BANANA BREAD:; ¾ cups Very Ripe Bananas, Mashed; 1 whole Melted Coconut Oil Or Melted Butter; 1 teaspoon Light Brown Sugar, Packed; 1 teaspoon Egg Beaten; ⅛ teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract; 1 pinch Ground Cinnamon; 1 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg; 1-½ cup Salt

Why it works: Coconut and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 549 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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.

Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together549 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Walnut + coconuttop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together606 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Walnut + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,147 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Oats + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,394 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Oats + coconuttop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together522 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, flour, sugar, oats, cinnamon, coconut, bread):

Vanillafits better
Figfits better
Raisinfits better
Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, flour, sugar, oats, cinnamon, coconut, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Banana Bread with Walnut Crumble