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Slow-Cooked Red Enchilada Sauce

Some things should not be rushed, and enchilada sauce is one of those things. This sauce has deep, rich and savory flavor that can only come from slow cooking.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Slow-Cooked Red Enchilada Sauce

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 ↓

Slow-Cooked Red Enchilada Sauce

Serves 10
Prep15 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

723Calories
37 gProtein
41 gFat
54 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Jalapeno + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, olive, onion, clove, garlic, cumin):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, olive, onion, clove, garlic, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.