Name: Albondigas En Salsa
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 500 minced beef or lamb; g quarter of a Spanish onion, chopped; 0.25 garlic clove; 1 Salt & black pepper; 1 sprig of flat parsley; pinch slice of white bread; 1 milk; 1 Spanish olive oil; 100 3/4 of a Spanish onion; ml garlic cloves; 4 small carrot; tbsp small tin of green peas; 0.75 glass of Spanish red wine; 4 sprig of thyme; 1 sprig of rosemary; 1 Salt; 1 tin of chopped plum tomatoes; 1 sugar

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).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,768 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, garlic, pepper, parsley, bread, milk):

Thymefits better
Marjoramfits better
Celeryfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, garlic, pepper, parsley, bread, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Lamb	100g cooked	294
Beef	100g cooked	250
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
White Bread	1 slice (30g) white	79
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
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
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Albondigas En Salsa