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Spicy Tomato and Squid Pasta

A simple way to warm a heatproof serving bowl is to put it in the sink with a colander inside of it. When you drain the cooked pasta into the colander, the pasta water warms the serving bowl. This is also a good way to capture some of the cooking water, in case you need to loosen the pasta sauce.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and squid work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 96 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Tomato + squidtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, pepper, parsley, anchovy, tomato, pasta):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, pepper, parsley, anchovy, tomato, 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).