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Spicy Shrimp with Spinach and Farfalle

There are not a lot of words that can describe my pleasure with this meal. It combines a quick tomato pan sauce with shrimp, a touch of red pepper flakes, and spinach, all over a marvelous farfalle pasta. Easy, simple, quick, and delicious! Enough said.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Spicy Shrimp with Spinach and Farfalle

Why it works: Spinach and pasta match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Spicy Shrimp with Spinach and Farfalle

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

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By tastykitchen. 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. Spinach + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + pastatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, pepper, tomato, shrimp, spinach, pasta):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Capersbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, pepper, tomato, shrimp, spinach, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).