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Easy Baked Lasagna Rolls

A baked lasagna roll in a savory meat-feta marinara sauce and cheese. An easy and delicious homemade Italian meal.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Easy Baked Lasagna Rolls

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 ↓

Easy Baked Lasagna Rolls

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

476Calories
41 gProtein
31 gFat
7 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Lasagnanot in our table0
Leafnot 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. Beef + garlictop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + mozzarella cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Beef + mozzarella cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together397 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + feta cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, feta cheese, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Basilfits about as well

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