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Colorful Frittata

This recipe offers a delicious mix of textures and flavors, with the sweet tomatoes providing a nice contrast to the earthy spinach and mildly salty feta. Other ideas: sautéed mushrooms and fontina cheese, or asparagus and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Colorful Frittata

Why it works: Spinach and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 198 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Colorful Frittata

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

444Calories
18 gProtein
29 gFat
33 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By williamssonoma. 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. Spinach + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together198 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

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

  3. Olive + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Spinach + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Oregano + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, egg, olive, shallot, oregano, pepper, feta cheese):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, egg, olive, shallot, oregano, pepper, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.