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Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts Recipe

An addictive mélange of spinach, garlic, raisins, pine nuts, and good olive oil, this is one of the best-known Catalan dishes. Its uses in the Catalan kitchen...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts Recipe

Why it works: Spinach and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

389Calories
6 gProtein
33 gFat
23 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, olive, garlic, clove, pine, nuts, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, olive, garlic, clove, pine, nuts, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.