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Easy Collard Greens

"Easy southern collards the whole family will enjoy. Seasoning measurements are approximated; adjust to preferred taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Easy Collard Greens

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Easy Collard Greens

8 servings
Prep5 min
Cook2 hr

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Sugar + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together19,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Garlic + sugartop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 19,398 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, sugar, pepper. 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).