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Herbed Quinoa and Red Rice Stuffing with Kale and Pine Nuts

Looking for a gluten-free stuffing that tastes amazing? Try this version, made with our quinoa and red rice stuffing mix. To further enhance the flavor, we add Tuscan kale and fresh oregano plus pine nuts for a bit of crunch.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Ingredients

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

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

  1. Quinoa + kaletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together559 recipes

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

  3. Quinoa + red ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Oregano + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Onion + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,506 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, red rice, butter, onion, celery, kale, pine):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, red rice, butter, onion, celery, kale, pine. 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).