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Tropical Spelt Granola Recipe

This spelt granola recipe has the tropical flavors of coconut and dried mango.

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Why it works: Spelt and honey work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

About 4 cups
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Heat the oven to 325°F (163°C) and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. In a large bowl, stir together the rolled spelt flakes, sweetened flaked coconut and kosher salt.

  3. In a small saucepan over low heat, warm the honey, vegetable oil and vanilla extract, stirring, for about 1 minute until smooth and pourable.

  4. Pour the warm honey mixture over the dry ingredients and stir until everything is evenly coated.

  5. Spread the mixture in an even layer on the prepared baking sheet.

  6. Bake for 25 minutes, stirring once halfway through, until the granola is golden brown.

  7. Let the granola cool completely on the pan, about 15 minutes, until it turns crisp.

  8. Stir in the small-diced dried mango and the dried papaya, dried pineapple, or a combination of both, then store in an airtight container.

By chow. 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. Spelt + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mango + papayatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Coconut + papayatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Coconut + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together221 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the papaya

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spelt, coconut, honey, vanilla, mango):

  1. Pineappleabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Papayathe original
  3. Bananaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against spelt, coconut, honey, vanilla, mango. 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).