Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Mallard duck + chickentop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together329 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
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Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together14,075 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Tomato + red winetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together806 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Carrot + tomatotop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,597 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the sage
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mallard duck, chicken, carrot, onion, garlic, tomato, red wine):
- Thymebetter flavor fit
- Celerybetter flavor fit
- Cuminbetter flavor fit
- Sagethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against mallard duck, chicken, carrot, onion, garlic, tomato, red wine. 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).
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