Bush Tomato Cream Sauce

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. Spinach + pastatop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together376 recipes

   Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together29,058 recipes

   Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

3. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together2,435 recipes

   Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

4. Pasta + garlictop 2% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together2,079 recipes

   Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

5. Spinach + lemontop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together1,109 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese and spinach ravioli

Provides the main body of the dish, with pasta dough that cooks to a tender bite.

Cream

Adds richness and fat, helping the sauce turn smooth and thicken when reduced.

Bush tomato chutney

Adds sweetness and acidity, giving the sauce its distinctive flavour.

Parmesan cheese

Adds savoury, salty depth and helps the sauce cling to the pasta.

White wine

Deglazes the pan, lifting browned flavour from the onion and garlic into the sauce.

Butter

Adds fat and flavour for sautéing the onion and garlic.

The step that matters

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, spinach, pasta, lemon, onion, garlic, cream):

1. Capersfits better
2. Cuminfits better
3. Parsleyfits better
4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, spinach, pasta, lemon, onion, garlic, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.