Name: Raw Vegan Kale Chips Recipe
Yield: 1 large bowl
Ingredients: 1 large bunch of curly green kale – about 8 firmly packed cups; 1 cup raw cashews soaked in filtered water for 2 – 4 hours; 1/8 cup filtered water as needed for desired consistency; 3 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice; 1/4 cup nutritional yeast to taste; 1 whole bulb of garlic (about 8-10 cloves) chopped roughly; 1 tsp Celtic sea salt; 1 Tbsp agave nectar (optional); 4 teaspoons granulated garlic

Why it works: Kale and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Raw Vegan Kale Chips Recipe

1 large bowl

Ingredients

1 large bunch of curly green kale – about 8 firmly packed cups
1 cup raw cashews soaked in filtered water for 2 – 4 hours
1/8 cup filtered water as needed for desired consistency
3 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup nutritional yeast to taste
1 whole bulb of garlic (about 8-10 cloves) chopped roughly
1 tsp Celtic sea salt
1 Tbsp agave nectar (optional)
4 teaspoons granulated garlic

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

663Calories

20 gProtein

14 gFat

116 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Cashew	1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)	157
Agave	1 tsp (7g)	21
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Kale + agavetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together20 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Kale + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together490 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together226 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Kale + clovetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together95 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Clove + agavetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, lemon, garlic, agave):

Capersfits better
Cuminfits better
Parsleyfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, lemon, garlic, agave. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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