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Sugar-free Chocolate Brownies

Sugar-free chocolate brownies do exist and we've got the recipe to prove it! These simple brownies use sweet potatoes to bring some natural sweetness to these moreish treats.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sugar-free Chocolate Brownies

Makes 16 squares
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1373Calories
34 gProtein
49 gFat
201 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Flour + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sweet potato + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, butter, milk, egg, banana):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Sweet potatothe original
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Arrowrootfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cocoa powder, butter, milk, egg, banana. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.