Why it works: Onion and garlic 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 ↓
Sopa a LA Criolla II
Ingredients
Directions
Boil 10 cups water with red pepper.
Cut raw meat into 1/4" cubes.
Mix with salt, garlic, cominos, pepper.
Mix oil, achiote, tomato, tomato paste, and onions.
Then cook adding meat and stirring constantly.
Crumble in oregano.
Add meat sauce and potatoes to the boiling water.
Cook 10 minutes.
Beat and add to the water, constantly stirring the water.
Add milk while stirring.
Remove crusts from bread, toast.
Serve with slice of toast, floating on the soup.
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Explore the science
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.
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,058 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Oregano + tomatotop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,767 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
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Oregano + garlictop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together3,756 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together14,076 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together9,023 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the oregano
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, pepper, tomato, egg, onion, evaporated milk, garlic):
- Parsleybetter flavor fit
- Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
- Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
- Oreganothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, tomato, egg, onion, evaporated milk, garlic. 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).
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