Name: Sesame Cookies Recipe
Yield: 14 cookies
Ingredients: 1 ¼ cups blanched almond flour; ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt; ½ teaspoon baking soda; ⅓ cup agave nectar; ⅓ cup tahini (raw or roasted, though roasted will give more flavor); 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil; 1 tablespoon vanilla extract; ¼ cup sesame seeds (hulled or unhulled -I used hulled)

Why it works: Tahini and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 142 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

14 cookies

Ingredients

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

1 ¼ cups blanched almond flour
¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
⅓ cup agave nectar
⅓ cup tahini (raw or roasted, though roasted will give more flavor)
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
¼ cup sesame seeds (hulled or unhulled -I used hulled)

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.

Tahini + sesametop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together142 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Almond + sesametop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together203 recipes

Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).
Agave + vanillatop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together248 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Flour + agavetop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together213 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together8,450 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tahini

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, flour, agave, vanilla, sesame):

Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
Pistachiobetter flavor fit
Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
Tahinithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, flour, agave, vanilla, sesame. 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).

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