Name: Spicy Pasta with Broccoli and Turkey
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter; ¾ cups Panko Bread Crumbs; 2 Tablespoons Salt And Black Pepper; 1 pound Fresh, Flat-leaf Parsley, Chopped; 3 Tablespoons Small Pasta (I Used Farfalle); 3 cups Olive Oil; 2 cloves Broccoli Florets; ½ teaspoons Garlic, Finely Minced; ½ cups Crushed Red Pepper; 1 cup White Wine; 2 cups Turkey Or Chicken Stock (or Broth); 1 cup Fully Cooked Turkey Breast, Chopped Or Shredded (chicken May Be Substituted)

Why it works: Pasta and broccoli match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 286 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Pasta + broccolitop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together286 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Parsley + broccolitop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together653 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Parsley + pastatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together732 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread, pepper, parsley, pasta, olive, broccoli):

Capersfits better
Garlicfits better
Thymefits better
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Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, pepper, parsley, pasta, olive, broccoli. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pasta	1 cup cooked (140g)	220
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Spicy Pasta with Broccoli and Turkey