Name: Deborah's Slow Cooker Spicy Black Eyed Peas
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 4 h
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 4 (14 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained; 1/4 cup butter; 1 cup chopped onion; 1 cup diced cooked ham; 1 1/2 cups chopped green bell pepper; 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, drained; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 tablespoon seasoned salt

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Deborah's Slow Cooker Spicy Black Eyed Peas

12 servings

Prep10 min

Cook4 hr

Ingredients

4 (14 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup butter
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup diced cooked ham
1 1/2 cups chopped green bell pepper
1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, drained
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon seasoned salt

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Black-eyed pea + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together105 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Black-eyed pea + tomatotop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together100 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (black-eyed pea, butter, onion, ham, pepper, tomato, garlic):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Parsleybetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against black-eyed pea, butter, onion, ham, pepper, tomato, garlic. 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).

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