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Why it works: Beef and spinach work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 490 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 to 6 (about 24 shells total)

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By cookincanuck. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beef + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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 (pasta, olive, garlic, beef, spinach, tomato, cottage cheese):

  1. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, olive, garlic, beef, spinach, tomato, cottage 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).