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Asparagus, Red Onion and Cheddar Omelette Recipe

A simple cheese omelette spruced up with fresh asparagus tips, snipped chives and a dollop of crème fraîche.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,210 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Onion + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,210 recipes

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

  2. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Asparagus + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sunflower + chivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sunflower + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, butter, onion, asparagus, egg, pepper):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, butter, onion, asparagus, egg, pepper. 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).