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Cauliflower Medallions with Chia Seeds

Tasty cauliflower bites with cheese, onions, almond and corn meal, and chia seeds!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cauliflower Medallions with Chia Seeds

Why it works: Almond and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cauliflower Medallions with Chia Seeds

Serves 33
Prep15 min
Cook16 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

353Calories
21 gProtein
14 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chia Seednot 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 tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Almond + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cauliflower + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

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

  3. Cauliflower + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Almond + corntop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together485 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the chia

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cauliflower, mozzarella cheese, onion, parsley, egg, almond, corn):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Chiathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cauliflower, mozzarella cheese, onion, parsley, egg, almond, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.