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Heather's Quinoa Recipe

A one-skillet quinoa recipe - quinoa, corn, chopped kale and pan-toasted tofu tossed with a big dollop of pesto and finished off with a few roasted cherry tomatoes.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Heather's Quinoa Recipe

Why it works: Quinoa 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 41 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Heather's Quinoa Recipe

Serves 4 - 6.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

823Calories
27 gProtein
24 gFat
132 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Tofu100g firm76
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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. Quinoa + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + quinoatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

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

  4. Olive + quinoatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Quinoa + pumpkintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together62 recipes

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

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, shallot, quinoa, corn, kale, tofu, pumpkin):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, shallot, quinoa, corn, kale, tofu, pumpkin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.