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Seafood Pasta with a Light Curry Sauce

A good-quality mild curry powder is your friend. It adds a cheeky kick to this dish of prawn, scallop, squid and salmon pasta. Make your favourite pasta shapes or, if you’re short on time, just buy them.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and semolina share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 27 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pasta + semolinatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + semolinatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together310 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together610 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Squid + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,153 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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