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Fresh & Easy One Pot Pasta in 20 Minutes

Just one pot. No boiling the pasta in a separate pot then making a sauce in another. Just one pot. All the fresh ingredients together including the liquid—one big happy family. Add a flame and stir a bit then 15 minutes later you can top with cheese and you’ll have the most fantastic, fresh, quick pasta dish that family and friends will go crazy over. This is foolproof—trust me.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Fresh & Easy One Pot Pasta in 20 Minutes

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Fresh & Easy One Pot Pasta in 20 Minutes

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

602Calories
71 gProtein
26 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Basil + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion, garlic, basil, turkey, pepper, chicken):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion, garlic, basil, turkey, pepper, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.