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Asiago Spinach Chicken Meatballs

Incredible Asiago spinach chicken meatballs served with a kale walnut pesto over quinoa fusilli. This is the most delicious and nutritious dish that you can have on the table in 30 minutes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and spinach are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,146 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts, soy, fish (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. Chicken + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,146 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Spinach + pastatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Sauce + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sriracha + eggtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together101 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + truffletop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, spinach, cheese, truffle, sauce, egg, pasta):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Capersbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, spinach, cheese, truffle, sauce, egg, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).