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Cheese Tortellini with Prego® Roasted Garlic and Herb Sauce

"Tortellini with sausage and peas tossed with a sauce made with Prego® Roasted Garlic & Herb Italian Sauce, and cream served with Pepperidge Farm® Five Cheese Garlic Bread. Pair with a Caesar salad. For dessert serve warm blueberry almond crumble. "

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Cheese Tortellini with Prego® Roasted Garlic and Herb Sauce

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Cheese Tortellini with Prego® Roasted Garlic and Herb Sauce

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

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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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + peastop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  3. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, pork, sauce, peas, cream, cheese):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Capersbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, pork, sauce, peas, cream, cheese. 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).