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Creamy Pasta Primavera

"Rich and creamy, very yummy for the tummy! Serve with garlic toast!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Creamy Pasta Primavera

Why it works: Cream cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 311 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Creamy Pasta Primavera

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,199 recipes

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, mushroom, milk, cream cheese, ham, parmesan cheese):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, mushroom, milk, cream cheese, ham, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).