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Italian Spinach Sausage Pie

"This festive sausage pie is perfect for a holiday brunch or midnight snack."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Italian Spinach Sausage Pie

Why it works: Spinach and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,435 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Italian Spinach Sausage Pie

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

596Calories
52 gProtein
36 gFat
11 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pie Crustnot in our table0
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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Spinach + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Mozzarella cheese + ricotta cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Spinach + ricotta cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together250 recipes

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

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, spinach, mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese, pepper):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, spinach, mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.