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Creamy Trout and Prawn Pasta

A brightly coloured dish thats quick and healthy and perfect for a mid week meal, low fat too!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Creamy Trout and Prawn Pasta

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

700Calories
43 gProtein
17 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Troutnot in our table0
Saladnot 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 + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pasta + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Broccoli + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Onion + broccolitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Spinach + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, sauce, onion, sugar, broccoli, spinach, pepper):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, sauce, onion, sugar, broccoli, spinach, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.