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Meatballs with a Twist Recipe

All kids love meatballs... so why not use that to your advantage, and disguise a little tuna in them next time? Fiona Faulkner's 'meatballs with a twist' are sure to work.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Meatballs with a Twist Recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1348Calories
53 gProtein
55 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 18 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Salmon100g cooked208
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot 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 lovefood. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pine + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

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

  5. Clove + pinetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, garlic, pine, meat, lime, egg):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, garlic, pine, meat, lime, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.