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Pasta with Sausage, Mustard & Tarragon

Herby pork meatballs with a creamy mustard sauce is a perfect match for penne at suppertime

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 573 recipes mention both. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By bbcgoodfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mustard + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Fennel + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, mustard, cream, chicken, tarragon):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, mustard, cream, chicken, tarragon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).