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This is a perfect brunch.  If you are having people over or if you are doing a shower this is a perfect dish you can prepare the night before and just cook it in the morning.  One of the hardest things with brunch is to keep the eggs warm or get up early enough to…

By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Quiche

Why it works: Swiss cheese and cottage cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Quiche

8 servings
Prep30 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

777Calories
66 gProtein
51 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Swiss Cheese1 oz (28g)108
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Meatnot 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 delishhh. 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. Swiss cheese + cottage cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

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

  2. Cottage cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

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

  3. Spinach + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together603 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Swiss cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + swiss cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, mushroom, meat, swiss cheese, cottage cheese, cheese, nutmeg):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, mushroom, meat, swiss cheese, cottage cheese, cheese, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.