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Open Ravioli with Dillisk Pasta, Broad Beans, Asparagus and Fennel in a Lemon Cream Sauce

Layers of pasta laced with a wonderfully savoury seaweed, filled with broad beans, asparagus and fennel in a cream sauce all makes for something rather divine.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and fennel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 723 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Lemon + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Saffron + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Saffron + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Beans + asparagustop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 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

Flavor stand-ins for the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, beans, asparagus, onion, garlic, white wine):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, beans, asparagus, onion, garlic, white wine. 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).