Name: Hot Tamale Roll-ups
Ingredients: 10 flour tortillas; 1 can tamales or 10 fresh ones; 1 onion; 1 can refried beans; 1 small can sliced black olives; 1 package of taco seasoning; 1 can enchilada sauce; 1 package shredded mozzarella cheese

Why it works: Beans and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,470 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Hot Tamale Roll-ups

Ingredients

Directions

Cook hamburger meat, onions and add taco seasoning until meat is browned, drain
Warm tortillas
Lay tortilla one at a time on flat surface
Add one tsp refried beans
Top with one tamale
Add small amount of black olives and top with 1 tbsp cheese
Roll up and repeat process until complete
Add each to a buttered 9x13 casserole dish
Top with enchilada sauce then spread extra cheese on top.
Bake 350 for 25-30 min and serve

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

728Calories

24 gProtein

12 gFat

130 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 10 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Tamale	not in our table	0
Bean	not in our table	0
Taco	not in our table	0
Enchilada	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

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

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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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.

Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,470 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,773 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Onion + beanstop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,242 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Flour + beanstop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,080 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, beans, olive, sauce, mozzarella cheese):

Tomatofits better
Welsh onionfits better
Eggplantfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, beans, olive, sauce, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.