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Pine Nut and Feta Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

This is a sweet and salty appetizer which is beautiful and healthy. Pine nuts are crunchy, sweet and delicious. And they are a source of essential minerals, vitamins and mono-unsaturated fatty acids which helps in lowering the cholesterol levels. Feta is a brined curd white cheese. It has a creamy texture. It tastes tangy, slightly salty, mildly sour and with a hint of sweetness.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Pine Nut and Feta Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

Why it works: Feta cheese and mozzarella cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Pine Nut and Feta Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

Serves 9
Prep10 min
Cook22 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

857Calories
31 gProtein
36 gFat
103 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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.

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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. Feta cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Pine + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Pepper + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Basil + mozzarella cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,010 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Pine + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, feta cheese, pepper, basil, bread, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, feta cheese, pepper, basil, bread, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.