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Smoked Sausage in Tomato Sauce

"A great recipe I learned from a friend. Works with zucchini, too. Serve over rice or egg noodles."

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Why it works: Tomato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,468 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Brown the sliced smoked sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat for about 4 minutes, until lightly browned. The sausage is already cooked, so it only needs to be heated through.

  2. Sprinkle the flour over the sausage and stir for 1 minute to coat it.

  3. Add the water and crumble in the beef bouillon cube, stirring until it dissolves.

  4. Stir in the diced tomatoes and tomato sauce, then bring the mixture to a gentle simmer.

  5. Add the trimmed green beans, cover, and simmer over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes, until the beans are tender-crisp.

  6. Uncover and simmer 2 minutes more so the sauce thickens slightly, then serve hot.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Tomato + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + green beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together113 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,445 recipes

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

  4. Beef + green beanstop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  5. Flour + green beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, tomato, sauce, beef):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, tomato, sauce, beef. 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).