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No Bake Peanut Butter Chip Granola Bars

With a combination of healthy ingredients, these No Bake Peanut Butter Granola Bars are chewy, moist, and packed full of flavor.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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No Bake Peanut Butter Chip Granola Bars

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 ↓

No Bake Peanut Butter Chip Granola Bars

Serves 12
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

646Calories
17 gProtein
17 gFat
107 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Chia Seednot in our table0
Roasted Peanutnot 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. Rice + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

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

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

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, rice, honey, peanut, sugar, butter, vanilla):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Chiathe original
  3. Gingerfits less well
  4. Nutmegfits less well

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