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Blueberry Yogurt Flax Muffins

These blueberry yogurt flax muffins are so incredibly moist and yummy. Even better, they are lean and nutritious with no all-purpose flour or butter!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and yogurt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,358 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 24
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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) and line a 24-cup muffin tin with paper liners or grease the cups.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the quinoa flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and whole flax seeds.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the apple sauce, milk, plain Greek yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract until smooth.

  4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until no dry flour remains. Do not overmix.

  5. Gently fold in the fresh blueberries.

  6. Divide the batter evenly among the 24 muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full.

  7. Bake for about 18 to 22 minutes, until the tops spring back when pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the eggs are fully set.

  8. Cool the muffins in the tin for 5 minutes, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

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. Milk + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,358 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Quinoa + flourtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, sauce, milk):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, sauce, milk. 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).