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Sunny-Side-up Eggs on Mustard-Creamed Spinach with Crispy Crumbs

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Sunny-Side-up Eggs on Mustard-Creamed Spinach with Crispy Crumbs

Why it works: Mustard and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 503 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Sunny-Side-up Eggs on Mustard-Creamed Spinach with Crispy Crumbs

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

717Calories
21 gProtein
26 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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 epicurious. 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. Mustard + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together503 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Mustard + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Spinach + thymetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

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

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, mustard, olive, spinach, egg):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, mustard, olive, spinach, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.