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Annalise's Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable Salad

By thevintagemixer · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Annalise's Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable Salad

Why it works: Quinoa and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Annalise's Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable Salad

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

937Calories
31 gProtein
50 gFat
99 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5

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

By thevintagemixer. 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. Quinoa + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Quinoa + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Quinoa + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  4. Lettuce + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Sweet potato + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, lettuce, sweet potato, cottage cheese, sunflower):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, lettuce, sweet potato, cottage cheese, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.