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Puttanesca II

"A good friend gave me this recipe and I've since found it to be so tasty and best of all, easy! My family loves it and it doesn't take long to make at all! Its perfect over angel hair pasta with garlic bread on the side! Double the recipe for larger parties or just for leftovers!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Puttanesca II

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 ↓

Puttanesca II

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

384Calories
4 gProtein
26 gFat
38 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry Pepper1 cup (138g)87
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Tomato + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,113 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butter, onion, garlic, tomato, cherry, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butter, onion, garlic, tomato, cherry, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.