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Creamy Pennette with Walnuts Recipe

This is very quick and so easy - it's a no-cook sauce. I love its simple flavours, but it can be dressed up a little more by adding some lovely smoked chicken.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,230 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Creamy Pennette with Walnuts Recipe

4 people
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

387Calories
19 gProtein
33 gFat
5 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By lovefood. 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. Walnut + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Walnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cheese + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, walnut, pepper):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Celeryfits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, walnut, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.