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Recipe Flash: Nutty Quinoa Cakes with Basil and ParmesanIn Honor of the , We’ll Be Featuring Our Favorite Portable Lunch Items All Week long!Nutty Quinoa Cakes with Basil and Parmesan

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Recipe Flash: Nutty Quinoa Cakes with Basil and ParmesanIn Honor of the , We’ll Be Featuring Our Favorite Portable Lunch Items All Week long!Nutty Quinoa Cakes with Basil and Parmesan

Makes 6-8 Cakes; 2 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1506Calories
52 gProtein
68 gFat
175 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Bread1 slice (30g) white79
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coffeenot 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 biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Basil + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Quinoa + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together289 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Basil + clovetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Quinoa + basiltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together62 recipes

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

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 (quinoa, basil, onion, clove, garlic, bread, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, basil, onion, clove, garlic, bread, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.