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Coconut Milk Breakfast Quinoa

This breakfast quinoa is a great substitute to regular oatmeal! Served with pecans, bananas and coconut milk, this is sure to brighten up your morning!

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Why it works: Quinoa and coconut work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Rinse the quinoa in a fine-mesh strainer under cold running water until the water runs clear, then drain well.

  2. Combine the rinsed quinoa in a saucepan with the coconut milk and a splash of water, then stir in the ground cinnamon and fine sea salt.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes until the liquid is absorbed.

  4. Remove the pan from the heat, keep it covered for 5 minutes, then fluff the quinoa with a fork and stir in the pure vanilla extract.

  5. Spoon the quinoa into bowls, top with the sliced banana, and drizzle with extra coconut milk. Serve warm.

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. Quinoa + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vanilla + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  4. Coconut + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, coconut, milk, cinnamon, vanilla):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, coconut, milk, cinnamon, vanilla. 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).