Name: Slow Cooker Ham and Split Pea Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 8 h
Yield: 20
Ingredients: 1 Leftover Ham Hock, Preferably Meaty, Or 1 Ham Hock Bone And 1 Cup Cubed Ham Meat; 1 pound Dried Green Split Peas, Rinsed; 1 cup Leftover Cubed Fully Cooked Ham Or You Can Use A Ham Steak And Chop It Up; 1 Large Onion, Chopped; 2 stalks Celery With Leaves, Chopped; 1 cup Carrots, Chopped; 2 cloves Garlic, Minced; 2 sprigs Fresh Thyme, Leaves Removed; 2 cups Salt And Pepper, to taste; 32 ounces, fluid Water

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. 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.

Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

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Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,563 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,193 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, onion, celery, carrot, clove, garlic, thyme):

Lentilsfits better
Chickpeafits better
Beansfits better
Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, onion, celery, carrot, clove, garlic, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Pork	100g cooked	242
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

Slow Cooker Ham and Split Pea Soup