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Gourmet Trail Mix Recipe

Trail mix can be so measly, with sad-looking peanuts and waxy chocolate, but it doesn't have to be. Buy some good-quality ingredients, and you'll be surprised...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and chocolate match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,279 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

10 to 12 servings (about 5 1/2 cups)

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Peanut + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Peanut + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Ginger + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Almond + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Peanut + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, almond, milk, chocolate, coconut):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, almond, milk, chocolate, coconut. 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).