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Chili Lime Shrimp Pesto Pasta

Succulent chili lime shrimp, creamy arugula avocado pesto and quinoa fusilli come together beautifully in this gluten-free pasta delight!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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.

  1. Quinoa + pastatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Avocado + quinoatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Avocado + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arugula, avocado, olive, pine, parmesan cheese, almond, milk):

  1. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arugula, avocado, olive, pine, parmesan cheese, almond, milk. 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).