Name: Vegetarian Slow Cooker Corn Chowder
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 3 (15 ounce) cans cream-style corn; 3 (15.25 ounce) cans whole-kernel corn; 1 (16 ounce) package frozen diced hash brown potatoes; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 large red onion, chopped; 1 large sweet white onion, chopped; 3 bell peppers, chopped; 3 stalks celery, chopped; 3 large carrots, chopped; 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped; 3 hot cherry peppers, seeded and chopped; 2 poblano peppers, seeded and chopped; 4 cups half-and-half cream

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. 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.

Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,107 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Corn + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together938 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, corn, potato, butter, pepper, celery, carrot):

Capsicumfits better
Parsnipfits better
Spinachfits about as well
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, corn, potato, butter, pepper, celery, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cherry Pepper	1 cup (138g)	87
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Jalapeno Pepper	1 pepper (14g)	4

Vegetarian Slow Cooker Corn Chowder