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Cheesy Quinoa Casserole

Cheesy Quinoa Casserole is made with only 5 main ingredients and takes 15 minutes to cook. It will leave you so satisfied with the combination of delicious healthy quinoa, warm melted cheese and roasted tomatoes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and quinoa work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook16 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mozzarella cheese + quinoatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18 recipes

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

  2. Mozzarella cheese + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Quinoa + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + mozzarella cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together367 recipes

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

  5. Milk + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,223 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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