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Baked Mushrooms and Potatoes with Spinach

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Baked Mushrooms and Potatoes with Spinach

Why it works: Clove and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,108 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Baked Mushrooms and Potatoes with Spinach

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

649Calories
15 gProtein
37 gFat
76 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)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 allrecipes. 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. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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 (potato, olive, mushroom, clove, garlic, thyme, pepper):

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

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