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Mushroom Shallot Garlic Quinoa

An easy and healthy side dish. Ready in less than 30 minutes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mushroom Shallot Garlic Quinoa

Why it works: Quinoa and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mushroom Shallot Garlic Quinoa

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

597Calories
44 gProtein
22 gFat
53 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
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Quinoa + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, chicken, olive, shallot, garlic, mushroom, shiitake):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, chicken, olive, shallot, garlic, mushroom, shiitake. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.