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Spinach and Red Lentil Bake

A delicious spinach and red lentil bake that tastes great hot or cold. Bring along to a potluck picnic, pack in a lunch box or serve as a crowd-pleasing dinner.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Spinach and Red Lentil Bake

Why it works: Lentils and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 132 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Spinach and Red Lentil Bake

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

320Calories
16 gProtein
3 gFat
58 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7

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.

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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. Lentils + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lentils + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,221 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lentils + oatstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Spinach + oatstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lentils, spinach, oats):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, spinach, oats. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.