Name: Easy Pinto Bean Soup
Ingredients: 1 bag pinto beans; 2 pack onion soup mix

Why it works: Beans and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,242 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Easy Pinto Bean Soup

Timeseveral hours

Ingredients

1 bag pinto beans
2 pack onion soup mix

Directions

Put a bag of pinto beans in a crock pot with water.
Cook for several hours until softened.
Add 2 packages of onion soup mix.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

166Calories

9 gProtein

1 gFat

32 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pinto Bean	1/2 cup (86g) canned	122
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Soup	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.

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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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,242 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

What each ingredient does

Pinto beans: Form the body of the soup and thicken it as they soften and break down during long cooking.
Onion soup mix: Adds savory, salty onion flavor to the broth and beans.

“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.