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Pink Sauce for Pasta

"Great with pasta or rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Pink Sauce for Pasta

Why it works: Tomato and cumin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,272 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pink Sauce for Pasta

4 to 6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

383Calories
27 gProtein
21 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  5. Cumin + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together765 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, ginger, pepper, lemon, cumin, sugar, mustard):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, ginger, pepper, lemon, cumin, sugar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.