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Quinoa Patties with Eggs and Spinach Pesto

Delicious Quinoa patties for an extra healthy breakfast!

By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Quinoa Patties with Eggs and Spinach Pesto

Why it works: Quinoa and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Quinoa Patties with Eggs and Spinach Pesto

3-4
Prep25 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1244Calories
44 gProtein
51 gFat
156 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0
Chia Seednot in our table0
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 naturallyella. 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 + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Quinoa + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

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

  3. Chia + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Quinoa + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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