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Angel Hair Pasta with Peppers and Chicken

"Great dish with wonderful color and texture; just don't overcook the peppers!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and water chestnut work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 170 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (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.

  1. Pepper + water chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Water chestnut + pastatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 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 water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, pepper, sugar, chicken, onion, pasta):

  1. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Water chestnutthe original
  4. Limeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, pepper, sugar, chicken, onion, pasta. 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).