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Delicious Big Bowl - Quinoa Recipe

This quinoa recipe shows you how I might clean out my fridge - white quinoa, potatoes, onions, toasted nuts, and asparagus.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Delicious Big Bowl - Quinoa Recipe

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 ↓

Delicious Big Bowl - Quinoa Recipe

Serves 4 - 6.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

794Calories
21 gProtein
40 gFat
96 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Nutsnot in our table0
Citrusnot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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, olive, potato, onion, clove, garlic, walnut):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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