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Paul's Southern California BBQ Sauce

"You won't have to go to Texas to get the big BBQ taste. You'll be the envy at your backyard BBQ party. You like it spicy or sweet it's up to you. Put it on chicken, beef and/or ribs. You won't be disappointed. Enjoy!"

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Why it works: Onion and garlic 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 ↓

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12 Servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,243 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Garlic + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Apple cider vinegar + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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 (apple cider vinegar, ketchup, garlic, mustard, pepper, sugar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Horseradishabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cabbageabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple cider vinegar, ketchup, garlic, mustard, pepper, sugar. 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).