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Homemade Spinach & Cheese Ravioli Recipe

By thelittlekitchen · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and ricotta cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 250 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 48-50 raviolis

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Spinach + ricotta cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together250 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Spinach + parmesan cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together889 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, flour, semolina, spinach, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, pepper):

  1. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Oreganoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, flour, semolina, spinach, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, pepper. 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).