Name: Tagliatelle with Kielbasa, Onions and Tomatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 pound Polish Kielbasa, Cut Into Bite-Sized Coins; 1 whole Medium Onion, "frenched" (sliced From Pole To Pole); 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil, Only If Needed; 2 cloves Large Cloves Garlic, Minced; 28 ounces, weight Can Crushed Tomatoes (chopped, Diced, Pureed, All Work Too); 1 pound Salt And Pepper, to taste

Tagliatelle with Kielbasa, Onions and Tomatoes

This is an accidental family-favorite pasta dish that I created one night when the only thing I had in the fridge was a ring of kielbasa. I honestly didn’t expect to like it as much as we did, but we devoured it. The sauteed kielbasa adds a wonderful smoky flavor to the sauce, while the caramelized onions add some sweetness. Throw in a little garlic and tomato, boil up some pasta and you’ve got yourself one fabulous meal.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tagliatelle with Kielbasa, Onions and Tomatoes

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

1 pound Polish Kielbasa, Cut Into Bite-Sized Coins
1 whole Medium Onion, "frenched" (sliced From Pole To Pole)
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil, Only If Needed
2 cloves Large Cloves Garlic, Minced
28 ounces, weight Can Crushed Tomatoes (chopped, Diced, Pureed, All Work Too)
1 pound Salt And Pepper, to taste

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

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

Cuminbetter flavor fit
Thymebetter flavor fit
Basilbetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

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

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