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Quinoa Gingerbread Cookies

Delicious and healthy gingerbread cookies made with oat flour, flax meal and quinoa. Soft and cake-like, these make a perfect treat on a warm winter night.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Quinoa Gingerbread Cookies

Why it works: Nutmeg and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Quinoa Gingerbread Cookies

Serves 20
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1254Calories
29 gProtein
36 gFat
202 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Quinoa + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Ginger + coconuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, flour, ginger, nutmeg, clove, sugar, molasses):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, flour, ginger, nutmeg, clove, sugar, molasses. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.