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Rachel Allen's Homemade Pasta with Butter Grilled Asparagus Recipe

This recipe uses only a few ingredients to create a dish of real elegance. The grilled asparagus is lightly browned for a distinctive and divine flavour.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,022 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep30 min
Cook15 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 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Asparagus + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,022 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Lemon + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Asparagus + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together704 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, asparagus, butter, ham, pepper, lemon):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, asparagus, butter, ham, pepper, lemon. 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).