Why it works: Rice and black-eyed pea work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. 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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Rice + black-eyed peatop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together40 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together16,001 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Black-eyed pea + butternut squashtop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Rice + celerytop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,139 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the butternut squash
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, onion, celery, garlic, pepper, black-eyed pea, sauce):
- Limebetter flavor fit
- Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
- Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
- Butternut squashthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against rice, onion, celery, garlic, pepper, black-eyed pea, sauce. 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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