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Quinoa Salad with Kale, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Quinoa Salad with Kale, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan

Why it works: Quinoa and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Quinoa Salad with Kale, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan

Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

757Calories
27 gProtein
47 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Kale1 cup chopped (67g)33
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

By epicurious. 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.

  1. Quinoa + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Kale + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Quinoa + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, quinoa, kale, red wine, vinegar, mustard, pine):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, quinoa, kale, red wine, vinegar, mustard, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.