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Saffron Pasta Salad

A spring pasta salad made with a vibrant red-wine and saffron vinaigrette, asparagus, and toasted whole wheat orecchiette pasta from Puglia.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Saffron Pasta Salad

Why it works: Saffron and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 538 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Saffron Pasta Salad

Prep20 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

880Calories
23 gProtein
52 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saffronnot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Saffron + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Saffron + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 (saffron, red wine, vinegar, garlic, clove, mustard, olive):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against saffron, red wine, vinegar, garlic, clove, mustard, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.