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Kathy's Cheeze, Peas & Pasta Recipe

This is an easy, vegan comfort food recipe your whole family will enjoy. I decided to add a few peas to my "Mac 'n Cheese" recipe today-but instead of using macaroni...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Kathy's Cheeze, Peas & Pasta Recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1115Calories
38 gProtein
11 gFat
214 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 15 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Harissanot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Spreadnot 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 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 + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Pasta + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Mustard + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Mustard + sweet potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the harissa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, mustard, garlic, sweet potato, soy milk, pepper, maple syrup):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Harissathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, mustard, garlic, sweet potato, soy milk, pepper, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.