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Ranch House Barbecue

A smoked sausage and bean barbecue served over rice.

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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 ↓

Ranch House Barbecue

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sausage

  1. Place links in saucepan.

  2. Add water; cover and simmer 5 minutes.

  3. Remove from water and cut into thin slices.

Make the beans

  1. Combine sausage and onion in a large skillet.

  2. Cook until onion is transparent.

  3. Stir in beans, brown sugar, catsup, vinegar, mustard, garlic salt and chili powder.

  4. Simmer 10 minutes.

  5. Serve over beds of rice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

677Calories
41 gProtein
16 gFat
92 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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.

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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.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  3. Beans + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Mustard + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked country-style link sausage
Provides smoky, savory meat flavor that carries through the whole dish.
Kidney or pinto beans
Add body and substance, soaking up the sauce as they simmer.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the sauce thicken and brown slightly as it simmers.
Catsup
Supplies tomato base, sweetness and acidity to the sauce.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness of the sugar and catsup.
Chili powder
Contributes warm, earthy spice and aroma to the sauce.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, sugar, vinegar, mustard, garlic, rice):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, sugar, vinegar, mustard, garlic, rice. 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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