Why it works: Pasta and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,227 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Anthony's Chicken
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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.
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Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,227 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together11,888 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).
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Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together1,091 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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