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Savory Tomatoes

A skillet dish of bacon, tomatoes, onion, and garlic, cooked until fragrant.

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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 ↓

Savory Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the onion and garlic

  1. In a heavy-bottomed skillet, gently fry the onion until it turns opaque.

  2. Add the garlic and cook, stirring for 1 minute.

  3. Remove from pan and set aside.

Cook the bacon and combine

  1. Cook bacon until it just turns a gentle brown. Don't overcook.

  2. Return all ingredients to pan and heat through.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

232Calories
6 gProtein
17 gFat
16 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Tomato + clovetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon pieces
Renders fat for frying and adds savory, browned meaty flavor to the dish.
Onion
Softens and turns sweet as it cooks, forming the flavor base of the dish.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows and becomes savory as it cooks briefly.
Tomatoes
Contribute moisture and acidity that brighten the dish as they heat through.

The step that matters

Cook the bacon only until gently brown. Bacon that is overcooked becomes dry and brittle, and it keeps cooking when returned to the hot pan, so it should be pulled before it looks fully done.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion, garlic. 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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