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Soft, Chewy Cookie Granola Clusters

A super soft and chewy granola. It tastes almost like an oatmeal cookie but it’s loaded with all kinds of nutritious ingredients like walnuts, flax seeds, sunflower seeds and almonds. This granola isn’t like any other granola I’ve ever made. It’s perfectly sweet and sticks together like a delicate granola bar/oatmeal cookie.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Soft, Chewy Cookie Granola Clusters

Why it works: Oats and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,532 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Soft, Chewy Cookie Granola Clusters

Serves 24
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1209Calories
38 gProtein
52 gFat
148 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Flaxseednot 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 + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Oats + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together368 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  5. Oats + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together554 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, flour, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, walnut):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Macadamia nutfits better
  3. Flaxseedfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

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