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Marmalade Muffins

These craggy individual cupcakes are filled with oats, citrus and a melting middle - they're low-fat too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Marmalade Muffins

Why it works: Oats and sunflower work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Marmalade Muffins

MAKES 9
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

898Calories
43 gProtein
10 gFat
156 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Oats + sunflowertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Orange + sunflowertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

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

  3. Flour + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Oats + yogurttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, oats, sugar, sunflower, yogurt, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, oats, sugar, sunflower, yogurt, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.