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Donna Hay's Cheat's Ricotta, Spinach and Mint Gnocchi Recipe

Love gnocchi but can't be bothered to make it? Donna Hay to the rescue! Her recipe - which combines mint, spinach and ricotta - will have dinner on the table in half an hour.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and spinach work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 290 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep25 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Mint + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together290 recipes

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

  2. Flour + semolinatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together310 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Lemon + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  5. Spinach + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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