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Shell Pasta Salad with Salmon and Green Beans

"One of my favorite pasta salads. It is not only delicious but it's also low in fat. Enjoy."

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Shell Pasta Salad with Salmon and Green Beans

Why it works: Lemon and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Shell Pasta Salad with Salmon and Green Beans

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

684Calories
59 gProtein
20 gFat
66 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Salmon100g cooked208
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Green Beans1 cup (100g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Pasta + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pasta + dilltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, cottage cheese, yogurt, lemon, dill, salmon, pepper):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, cottage cheese, yogurt, lemon, dill, salmon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.