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Quinoa with Garlic Roasted Tomatoes, Chickpeas & Feta Recipe

Quinoa has become one of my favorite meals over the past year, so I am con­stantly try­ing to think up new ways to pre­pare this won­der­ful super­food. I had...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Quinoa with Garlic Roasted Tomatoes, Chickpeas & Feta Recipe

5 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

486Calories
15 gProtein
27 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Ginnot in our table0
Beannot 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. Quinoa + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

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

  2. Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Quinoa + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  4. Olive + feta cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,482 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Quinoa + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 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 (quinoa, white wine, gin, olive, feta cheese, beans):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, white wine, gin, olive, feta cheese, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.