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Spring Vegetable Tagliatelle with Lemon & Chive Sauce

Put some spring into your pasta, with this fresh yet simple supper idea. It's on the table in under half an hour and is low-fat too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Spring Vegetable Tagliatelle with Lemon & Chive Sauce

Why it works: Green beans and beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 36 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Spring Vegetable Tagliatelle with Lemon & Chive Sauce

Serves 4
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

485Calories
19 gProtein
36 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Broad Beannot 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. Green beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Asparagus + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

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

  4. Asparagus + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Green beans + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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 (green beans, asparagus, beans, peas, mustard, olive, chive):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, asparagus, beans, peas, mustard, olive, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.