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Grilled Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage with Tomato Cream Sauce Over Linguine

"Linguine with tomato cream sauce is an easy and impressive dish, topped with savory and delicious grilled Italian chicken sausage."

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Grilled Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage with Tomato Cream Sauce Over Linguine

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Grilled Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage with Tomato Cream Sauce Over Linguine

4 servings
Prep22 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

787Calories
71 gProtein
44 gFat
19 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,767 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Garlic + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,756 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the oregano

The recipe marks oregano as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, onion, garlic, red wine, tomato, cream):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits about as well
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, onion, garlic, red wine, tomato, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.