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Summertime Tuna Pasta Salad

"It's fresh, light, tasty and healthy. (Variation: If you are not a big tuna fan like me, try one 7.5 ounce can of salmon, drained and flaked.)"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Summertime Tuna Pasta Salad

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Summertime Tuna Pasta Salad

8 servings
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

320Calories
26 gProtein
14 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salad Dressingnot in our table0
Macaroninot 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.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Dill + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together321 recipes

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

  3. Broccoli + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Dill + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

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

  5. Dill + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dill, pepper, broccoli, carrot, celery):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dill, pepper, broccoli, carrot, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.