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Meatless Chili Mac!

The ultimate comfort food without the guilt!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Meatless Chili Mac!

Why it works: Quinoa and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Meatless Chili Mac!

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

979Calories
37 gProtein
8 gFat
195 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Kale1 cup chopped (67g)33
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macaroninot 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. Quinoa + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

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

  3. Quinoa + corntop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  4. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Quinoa + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together194 recipes

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

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, onion, tomato, sauce, kale, pepper, corn):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, onion, tomato, sauce, kale, pepper, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.