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Not Your Mother’s Chex Mix

Original Chex Mix made into a sweet, spicy, chocolate-drizzled snack.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Not Your Mother’s Chex Mix

Why it works: Wheat and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Not Your Mother’s Chex Mix

Serves 24
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1503Calories
42 gProtein
33 gFat
260 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 17 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Bagel1 medium (89g)245
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0
Mixed Nutsnot in our table0
Syrupnot in our table0
Candy Barnot 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. Wheat + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Rice + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

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

  3. Rice + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together423 recipes

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

  4. Mixed nuts + bageltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + mixed nutstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, wheat, corn, mixed nuts, bagel, butter, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, wheat, corn, mixed nuts, bagel, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.