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Vegetarian Stuffing

"I take this to our family gathering for the holidays. Everyone likes it - the "meat eaters" don't miss the giblets. You can make it vegan by deleting the mushroom soup and increasing the broth, also use no/low fat soup if you like. Chopped walnuts can be substituted for chopped pecans. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Vegetarian Stuffing

Why it works: Mushroom and wild rice work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetarian Stuffing

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1105Calories
29 gProtein
29 gFat
191 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
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. Mushroom + wild ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Wild rice + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + wild ricetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together160 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the pecans

The recipe marks pecans as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cream, mushroom, pepper, wild rice, apple):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream, mushroom, pepper, wild rice, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.