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4-Ingredient Banana Flax Cookies

Healthy and vegan cookies with banana, flax, pumpkin seeds and dried fruit.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 99 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 25
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Mash the banana in a bowl with a fork until mostly smooth with a few small lumps.

  3. Stir in the flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and raisins until evenly combined.

  4. Let the mixture rest for 5 minutes so the flax seeds soften and thicken the dough.

  5. Scoop small spoonfuls onto a baking sheet and flatten each one slightly with the back of a spoon.

  6. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until the edges are firm and golden brown.

  7. Cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before moving the cookies to a rack.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Banana + pumpkintop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Banana + raisintop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Pumpkin + raisintop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, pumpkin):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, pumpkin. 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).