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Smoked Salmon Fettucine

A rich creamy pasta dish, dead easy and ready in ten minutes!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,622 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Smoked Salmon Fettucine

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1374Calories
55 gProtein
54 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Saucenot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pasta + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,622 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Pasta + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, sauce, onion, tomato, white wine, cream, salmon):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Plumfits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, sauce, onion, tomato, white wine, cream, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.