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Quick Spinach-Ricotta Calzones

"Go deep this Super Bowl Sunday: Serve calzones. These Italian turnovers are perfect 'finger food' -- no knife and fork required. And because the recipes use refrigerated rolls, it's an easy score. All you have to do is make the fillings."

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Quick Spinach-Ricotta Calzones

Why it works: Clove and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,686 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Quick Spinach-Ricotta Calzones

8 servings

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Spinach + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together603 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, spinach, garlic, clove, nutmeg, pepper, ricotta cheese):

  1. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, spinach, garlic, clove, nutmeg, pepper, ricotta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).