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Glazed Pearl Onions with Raisins and Almonds

"A wonderful relish-like vegetable dish. This dish can be made 6 hours ahead, and warmed before serving. If you don't have fresh thyme, substitute 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme. Sherry wine vinegar can be substituted for red wine vinegar. Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Glazed Pearl Onions with Raisins and Almonds

Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Glazed Pearl Onions with Raisins and Almonds

8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

317Calories
3 gProtein
13 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Sherry + red winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Thyme + red winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together749 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, sherry, honey, butter, thyme, almond, red wine):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, sherry, honey, butter, thyme, almond, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.