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Pasta Salad with Lima Beans and Anchovies

Pasta salad with lima beans and anchovies is packed with fiber from the whole-wheat pasta and beans, which makes you feel more satisfied after eating it.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Pasta Salad with Lima Beans and Anchovies

Why it works: Pepper and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pasta Salad with Lima Beans and Anchovies

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

327Calories
10 gProtein
15 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Wheatnot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
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 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. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Wheat + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the lima beans

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

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Lima beansthe original

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