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Pasta with Peas, Parmesan & Tarragon

Green peas put extra colour and punch into this pasta dish ready in just 10 minutes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and tarragon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Pasta + tarragontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Peas + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Peas + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pasta + peastop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Tarragon + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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