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Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe with Eggplant, Zucchini & Roasted Peppers

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Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe with Eggplant, Zucchini & Roasted Peppers

Why it works: Eggplant and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe with Eggplant, Zucchini & Roasted Peppers

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

677Calories
18 gProtein
39 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot 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 cookincanuck. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Eggplant + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Eggplant + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Lemon + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,823 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Eggplant + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (eggplant, olive, wheat, pasta, pepper, feta cheese, basil):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, olive, wheat, pasta, pepper, feta cheese, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.