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Kraft Recipe Makers Tex-Mex Scramble

"Bell peppers and red onions are quickly cooked with a zesty prepared sauce and tortilla chips, cooked with beaten eggs, and topped with salsa and cheese."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Kraft Recipe Makers Tex-Mex Scramble

Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,814 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Kraft Recipe Makers Tex-Mex Scramble

6 servings

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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.

  1. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Onion + cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,849 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, egg, cheese):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, egg, cheese. 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).