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Cherry Tomato Pomodoro Spaghetti

Adding fresh cherry tomatoes transforms this dish into something special. If desired, use a variety of cherry tomatoes (red, gold, purple) to create a particularly beautiful presentation.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry tomato and olive work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat (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. Cherry tomato + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

  2. Olive + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Cheese + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Pasta + saucetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  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