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Southwestern Lasagna

"Here's a wonderful, meaty lasagna with a true southwestern flavor. You won't find this one in any Italian cookbook!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Southwestern Lasagna

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Southwestern Lasagna

12 servings
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr 45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

696Calories
55 gProtein
40 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Jalapeno1 pepper (14g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Lasagnanot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  3. Jalapeno + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, onion, clove, garlic, cumin, ricotta cheese):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, onion, clove, garlic, cumin, ricotta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.