Fettuccine with Mussels, Chorizo, and Lemon Butter

Name: Fettuccine with Mussels, Chorizo, and Lemon Butter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 6 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter, At Room Temperature; 1 whole Lemon, Zested; ¼ cups Fresh, Flat-leaf Parsley, Chopped; ¼ teaspoons Kosher Salt; ⅛ teaspoons Freshly Ground Black Pepper; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil, Divided; 1 whole Shallot, Diced; 2 pounds Mussels, Beards Trimmed And Cleaned; ½ cups Dry White Wine; 2 sprigs Fresh Thyme; 1 pound Fettuccine Pasta; 6 ounces, weight Chorizo Sausage, Skinned And Thinly Sliced

Fettuccine pasta tossed with white wine-steamed mussels, spicy chorizo, and lemon parsley butter, drizzled with chorizo oil.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients

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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Fettuccine with Mussels, Chorizo, and Lemon Butter

Serves 4

Prep15 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

837Calories

60 gProtein

41 gFat

52 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 12 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Pasta	1 cup cooked (140g)	220
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,973 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,476 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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