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Peach Barbecue Sauce

"Sweet and spicy, this is a whole bunch tastier than your normal bottled barbecue sauce. I make this from late summer harvested fruits and vegetables and can it for use throughout the year and for holiday gifts. It is very mild, but that can be tweaked if you're so inclined."

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Peach Barbecue Sauce

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

Peach Barbecue Sauce

48 servings
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

326Calories
7 gProtein
2 gFat
77 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry Pepper1 cup (138g)87
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery Seed1 stalk (40g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Jalapeno Pepper1 pepper (14g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Smokenot in our table0
Seednot 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.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Peach + cherrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Tomato + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,113 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, tomato, onion, pepper, cherry, clove, garlic):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, tomato, onion, pepper, cherry, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.