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Jimmy the Saint's Sausage and Pepper Sauce

"This is my own recipe for a fairly quick pasta sauce, meaning it doesn't take all day to cook. Use your own judgment when it comes to adding the spices, that's what makes it fun! Great served with angel hair pasta, fresh garlic bread, and Chianti wine."

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Why it works: Sage and fennel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 88 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Sage + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together88 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Basil + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together223 recipes

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

  5. Basil + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-anethole (anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, onion, pepper, basil, sage, parsley):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, onion, pepper, basil, sage, parsley. 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).