Name: Spaghetti Al Tonno Piccanti Recipe
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 200 grams of spaghetti (de cecco, if you have it on hand is good); A small can of tuna (packed in olive oil is best); 1 clove of garlic (not sliced, just squished with the back of the knife); 1/2 of a small/med sized onion (chopped); Cayenne pepper; 1 can of diced plum tomatoes, without basil and other herbs if you can find it; 1 tbs Olive Oil (less if you use tuna packed in oil); Chopped Parsley (optional)

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Spaghetti Al Tonno Piccanti Recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

200 grams of spaghetti (de cecco, if you have it on hand is good)
A small can of tuna (packed in olive oil is best)
1 clove of garlic (not sliced, just squished with the back of the knife)
1/2 of a small/med sized onion (chopped)
Cayenne pepper
1 can of diced plum tomatoes, without basil and other herbs if you can find it
1 tbs Olive Oil (less if you use tuna packed in oil)
Chopped Parsley (optional)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

444Calories

24 gProtein

28 gFat

26 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tomato + basiltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,979 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the plum

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

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Lemonfits better
Plumthe original

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

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