Name: Chorizo and Gigante Bean Cassoulet
Yield: Makes 8 servings
Ingredients: 3 cups dried gigante, corona, or large lima beans; 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus more for drizzling; 8 fresh Spanish chorizo or hot Italian sausage links (About 2 pounds); 1 leek (white and pale-green parts only), cut into 1/4"-thick rounds; 1 small yellow onion, finely chopped; Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 3 anchovy fillets packed in oil, drained, chopped (optional); 1 tablespoon tomato paste; 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika; 3 cups low-salt chicken broth; 1 28-ounce can whole tomatoes, drained, crushed with your hands; 7 sprigs thyme; 2 bay leaves; 2 sprigs rosemary; 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided; 2 cups fresh coarse breadcrumbs (from three 1/2"-thick slices white sandwich bread); Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley; 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest

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 ↓

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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).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Leek + oniontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,326 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
Leek + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together150 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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 lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, leek, onion, pepper, garlic, clove, anchovy):

Chickpeafits better
Beansfits better
Lentilsfits better
Lima beansthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Anchovy	100g	210
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Lima Bean	1/2 cup (85g) cooked	108
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Chorizo and Gigante Bean Cassoulet