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Vegetarian Lentil Spaghetti

"Lentils can make a boring, vegetarian spaghetti dinner exciting again."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Vegetarian Lentil Spaghetti

Why it works: Lentils and artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetarian Lentil Spaghetti

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

494Calories
16 gProtein
28 gFat
51 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Artichoke1 medium (128g)60
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Lentils + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Artichoke + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together745 recipes

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

  4. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Lentils + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lentils, tomato, artichoke, pepper, olive, onion):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Sesamethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, tomato, artichoke, pepper, olive, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.