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Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable and Quinoa Salad Recipe

After a few days of eating junk, I decided I needed to eat something super nutritious and zingy. I got some organic Bolivian quinoa and a bunch of vegetables...

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Why it works: Quinoa and beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable and Quinoa Salad Recipe

4-6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

503Calories
13 gProtein
19 gFat
74 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
French Beannot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Cidernot 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 chow. 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 + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

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

  2. Eggplant + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Eggplant + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together801 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Tomato + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,767 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

The recipe marks clove as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, beans, tomato, eggplant, garlic, pepper, oregano):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, beans, tomato, eggplant, garlic, pepper, oregano. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.