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The Devil's Chili

A bean chili with onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, bell pepper, tomatoes, and seasonings.

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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 ↓

The Devil's Chili

Time1 1/2 hours, then 1 hour more

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large saucepan, saute onions, garlic, shallot, scallions, and bell pepper in oil.

  2. Add water, beans, and seasonings.

  3. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours.

  4. Add tomatoes and tomato sauce.

  5. Simmer for 1 hour more or until fork-tender.

  6. For spicier chili, use 2 or more cloves of garlic.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

411Calories
14 gProtein
17 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

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

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beans + misotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Shallot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Kidney, pink or pinto beans
Provide the main body and starch that thicken the chili as they cook down.
Tomatoes and tomato sauce
Supply moisture, acidity and body that build the chili's base flavor.
Onions
Release sweetness and savory depth when sauteed in oil.
Bell pepper
Adds fresh, slightly sweet vegetable flavor and texture to the pot.

The step that matters

Simmer until fork-tender. Dried beans need a long, gentle simmer to soften fully; adding acidic tomatoes too early can toughen their skins, so the beans should be tender before the second simmer is judged done.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, shallot, pepper, olive, beans, miso):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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