Name: Tomato Salad, Geeman Style
Ingredients: Tomatoes; Sliced green onions; Anise seed

Why it works: Tomato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 20,633 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tomato Salad, Geeman Style

Ingredients

Tomatoes
Sliced green onions
Anise seed

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes as described in the previous recipe.
Add sliced green onions and a little anise seed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + anisetop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together20 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Onion + anisetop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together79 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 anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion):

Garlicbetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Thymebetter flavor fit
Anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion. 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).