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Banana Hazelnut Breakfast Panini

"Breakfast never tasted so good--buttery croissants spread with chocolate hazelnut, topped with crispy bacon, banana slices, and cinnamon sugar are baked until golden brown."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,529 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Banana + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,529 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Cinnamon + sugartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Chocolate + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Chocolate + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Butter + cinnamontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

Cinnamon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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