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Baked Spinach and Pasta with a Creamy Roasted Garlic Sauce Recipe

i started playing around the silken tofu a while ago. it works well as an egg replacer in baked goods or egg dishes. but it also makes a thick, creamy sauce...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Baked Spinach and Pasta with a Creamy Roasted Garlic Sauce Recipe

6-8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1009Calories
30 gProtein
35 gFat
142 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Canola1 tbsp (14g)124
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tofu100g firm76
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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 + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pasta + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Pasta + tofutop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, spinach, tofu, olive, bread):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Turmericfits less well
  4. Cuminfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, spinach, tofu, olive, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.