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Power It Up Blueberry Vanilla Baked Oatmeal

A healthy, vegan, energizing breakfast made with gluten free oats, chia seeds, almond milk, chock full of plump blueberries, and with the most amazing vanilla flavor.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Power It Up Blueberry Vanilla Baked Oatmeal

Why it works: Oats and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Power It Up Blueberry Vanilla Baked Oatmeal

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

991Calories
30 gProtein
19 gFat
173 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Flax Seed1 tbsp (10g) ground55
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Almond Milk1 cup (240ml) unsweetened30
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chia Seednot 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. Oats + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chia + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

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

  4. Oats + maple syruptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Vanilla + maple syruptop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together752 recipes

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

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

Swap the chia

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

  1. Cinnamonfits about as well
  2. Chiathe original
  3. Gingerfits less well
  4. Clovefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, vanilla, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.