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Prosciutto Cups

"This is one of my favorite appetizers I make on the holidays when it's my turn to cook. It's very tasty if you like prosciutto, garlic, spinach, and ricotta cheese. Adjust the measurements to suit your preferences. Please enjoy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Prosciutto Cups

Why it works: Garlic and spinach 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 ↓

Prosciutto Cups

12 cups
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

185Calories
12 gProtein
10 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Clove + spinachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + ricotta cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, spinach, prosciutto, ricotta cheese):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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