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Pea, Feta & Quinoa Spring Rolls with Roast Tomato Nam Prik

Serve up these vegetarian filo pastry canapés with nam prik - a Thai chilli paste that we've mixed with oven-roasted tomatoes to make a dipping sauce

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Pea, Feta & Quinoa Spring Rolls with Roast Tomato Nam Prik

Why it works: Quinoa and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry 2-heptenal, which smells green. The science ↓

Pea, Feta & Quinoa Spring Rolls with Roast Tomato Nam Prik

Makes 12
Prep40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

683Calories
25 gProtein
32 gFat
78 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Peppermintnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Tamarindnot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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 + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  2. Mint + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Quinoa + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Quinoa + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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, feta cheese, mint, lemon, egg, sunflower, tomato):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, feta cheese, mint, lemon, egg, sunflower, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.