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Who Cares Vegan Mac and Cheese Recipe

This recipe by Team Fat Bottom Girls took Second Place at SF Food Wars' 2009 Mac Battle Royale with Cheese. Congratulations! This rich mac and cheese is great...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Who Cares Vegan Mac and Cheese Recipe

Why it works: Pasta and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Who Cares Vegan Mac and Cheese Recipe

Serves six

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1413Calories
39 gProtein
48 gFat
213 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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 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. Pasta + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pasta + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Pasta + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, potato, carrot, pine, miso, lemon, mustard):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, potato, carrot, pine, miso, lemon, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.