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Blueberry and Chia Quinoa

"Wake up in the morning and breakfast is served, the house smells like heaven. This is my new comfort food. Play with different types of seasonal fruits (peaches, apples, raisins, cranberries, etc.). Sprinkle chopped nuts or granola on the top to give it a little crunch."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chia and honey work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 60 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Rinse the quinoa in a fine-mesh strainer under cold running water until the water runs mostly clear, then drain well.

  2. Add the rinsed quinoa, the water and the soy milk to a slow cooker and stir to combine.

  3. Cover and cook on low for 5 hours 30 minutes, until the quinoa is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed.

  4. Stir in the chia seeds and honey, cover again and cook on low for 15 minutes so the chia seeds start to thicken the mixture.

  5. Gently fold in the blueberries, leave the lid off and let the quinoa rest for 15 minutes so it firms up slightly.

  6. Stir again and spoon into bowls to serve warm.

By allrecipes. 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.

  1. Chia + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Quinoa + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Soy milk + quinoatop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  4. Soy milk + chiatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Soy milk + honeytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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