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Quinoa with Roasted Tomatoes, Avocado, and Pesto

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 54 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

  • For the quinoa and vegetables
  • For the pesto vinaigrette

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Quinoa + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Quinoa + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Chickpea + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, quinoa, avocado, chickpea, garlic, walnut, basil):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, quinoa, avocado, chickpea, garlic, walnut, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).