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Maple Granola Crunch Porridge Topping

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Maple Granola Crunch Porridge Topping

Why it works: Sunflower and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Maple Granola Crunch Porridge Topping

Serves 15
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

799Calories
15 gProtein
59 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Sunflower + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Hazelnut + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hazelnut + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pumpkin + datestop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Pumpkin + maple syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hazelnut, pumpkin, sunflower, pine, dates, maple syrup, sugar):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, pumpkin, sunflower, pine, dates, maple syrup, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.