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Cardamom Granola Bars

"Cardamom and honey give these bars an exotic flavor. Pecans can easily be substituted for the walnuts if you prefer."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and cardamom share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

18 bars

Ingredients

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

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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. Walnut + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together90 recipes

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

  2. Oats + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Oats + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Raisin + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  5. Oats + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together554 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, walnut, cardamom, butter, sugar, honey):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, walnut, cardamom, butter, sugar, honey. 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).