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Lasagna Alfredo Roll Ups

"A delicious lasagna recipe with a twist. Alfredo sauce is named after Roman restaurateur Alfredo di Lello who is credited with creating this dish in the 1920s."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Lasagna Alfredo Roll Ups

Why it works: Spinach and pasta match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Lasagna Alfredo Roll Ups

8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

837Calories
44 gProtein
44 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Lasagnanot in our table0
Saucenot 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 + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Olive + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Spinach + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parmesan cheese + pastatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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, spinach, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, pasta, sauce):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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