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Why it works: Black-eyed pea and coconut work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Contains: peanut (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Black-eyed pea + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Coconut + peanut oiltop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Black-eyed pea + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Black-eyed pea + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together190 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 black-eyed pea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, coconut, milk, peanut oil):

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Black-eyed peathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, coconut, milk, peanut oil. 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).