Name: Pasta in Sauce with Meatballs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 pk of fettuccini pasta; 1 lb/453g of ground tukey; 1/2 onion; 2 cloves of garlic; *one for sauce,one for meat mixture; 2 cups of heavy cream; 1 can of cream of mushroom soup; 1 can of skim milk; 1 tablespoon of sour cream; 7-8 Mushrooms; 2 Tbs. plain bread crumbs; 2 scallions; Salt and pepper to taste; 1 Tbs olive oil

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 ↓

Explore the science

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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Pasta + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,079 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pasta + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,961 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Pasta + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together569 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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 (pasta, onion, garlic, sauce, meat, cream, mushroom):

Capersfits better
Thymefits better
Cuminfits better
Clovethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pasta	1 cup cooked (140g)	220
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Soup	not in our table	0

Pasta in Sauce with Meatballs