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Kale with Pine Nuts and Shredded Parmesan

"Kale is sauteed in butter and tossed with toasted pine nuts and shredded Parmesan cheese. Looks fancy enough for the holidays!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Kale with Pine Nuts and Shredded Parmesan

Why it works: Pine and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kale with Pine Nuts and Shredded Parmesan

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

419Calories
15 gProtein
38 gFat
7 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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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. Pine + kaletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Pine + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Kale + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pine + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, butter, kale, vinegar, pepper, parmesan cheese):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, butter, kale, vinegar, pepper, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.