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Crab Ravioli with Spring Onion Dressing

Making your own pasta is not so hard as you might think, especially if you have a food processor. These large ravioli parcels are filled with crab, apple and cucumber, served with charred spring onions.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crab Ravioli with Spring Onion Dressing

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1234Calories
55 gProtein
22 gFat
206 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Apple Juice1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Nigella Seednot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pasta + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cucumber + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together244 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Pasta + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Pasta + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, flour, egg, cucumber, crab, lemon, chive):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, flour, egg, cucumber, crab, lemon, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.