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Arugula Zucchini Pesto Pasta

Vegan pasta dish made with whole wheat pasta.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Arugula Zucchini Pesto Pasta

Why it works: Pasta and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Arugula Zucchini Pesto Pasta

Serves 3
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

812Calories
18 gProtein
38 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Waternot 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 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. Pasta + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pasta + cherry tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Wheat + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pine + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, pasta, onion, pine, nuts, olive, honey):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, pasta, onion, pine, nuts, olive, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.