Why it works: Pasta and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 2Ingredients
Contains: milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
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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.
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Pasta + kaletop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together39 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together23,449 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Garlic + kaletop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together490 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Pasta + garlictop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,077 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
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Kale + lemontop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together226 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the garlic
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, olive, kale, lemon):
- Capersbetter flavor fit
- Garlicthe original
- Basilabout as good a flavor fit
- Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, olive, kale, lemon. 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).
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