Name: Peas with Mushrooms
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 small onion, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas, thawed; 1 (4.5 ounce) jar sliced mushrooms, drained; 1 teaspoon white sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme; 1 pinch black pepper

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 ↓

Peas with Mushrooms

4 servings

Prep10 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

286Calories

8 gProtein

12 gFat

39 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushrooms	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,608 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,557 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, clove, garlic, butter, mushroom, sugar, thyme):

Chickpeafits better
Chestnutfits better
Cashew nutfits better
Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, clove, garlic, butter, mushroom, sugar, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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