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Almost Cheeseless Pasta Casserole Recipe

Trying to keep this pasta casserole recipe on the lighter side, I tossed a rustic farro pasta in yogurt that had been beaten with a bit of egg along with garlic, toasted almonds, chard, butternut squash, and olives. Baked until golden.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Almost Cheeseless Pasta Casserole Recipe

Why it works: Butternut squash and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Almost Cheeseless Pasta Casserole Recipe

Serves 6 -8 as a side.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

545Calories
40 gProtein
18 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Chardnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Butternut squash + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + kaletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butternut squash + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together476 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butternut squash + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, wheat, butternut squash, kale, yogurt, egg, garlic):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, wheat, butternut squash, kale, yogurt, egg, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.