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Lemon-Lime 3-Herb Pasta

"This is a great light pasta dish that goes well with any main dish! Mix and match the herbs. You can use whatever you have on hand."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and sage share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Lime + sagetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together887 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,445 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, lemon, lime, parsley):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, lemon, lime, 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).