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Make Your Own Taco Sauce

Make your own Ortega copycat taco sauce in minutes! Bet you already have the ingredients too! Taco sauce makes the world go round.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Make Your Own Taco Sauce

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Make Your Own Taco Sauce

Serves 12
Prep10 min

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,082 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cumin + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (tomato, sauce, cumin, garlic, pepper, apple cider vinegar, honey):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, sauce, cumin, garlic, pepper, apple cider vinegar, honey. 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).