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Mini Shell Pasta with a Creamy Smoked Bacon & Pea Sauce

This is one of the dishes I cook for my kids, but to be honest, it's so good that me and Jools always eat it too! Mini pasta shells are actually meant to be added to soups, but they're quick and easy to cook, which makes them a good thing to serve with pasta sauces. All in all this should take you no more than five and a half minutes to cook. However, if you decide to go for a bigger type of pasta, remember that it will need more time to cook than these mini shells.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mini Shell Pasta with a Creamy Smoked Bacon & Pea Sauce

Why it works: Mint and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Mini Shell Pasta with a Creamy Smoked Bacon & Pea Sauce

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Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

737Calories
57 gProtein
30 gFat
60 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot 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 jamieoliver. 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. Mint + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mint + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pasta + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parmesan cheese, pepper, chicken, pasta, olive, peas, lemon):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parmesan cheese, pepper, chicken, pasta, olive, peas, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.