Name: Bohemian Girl Mac 'n Cheese
Ingredients: 1/4 cup flour; 1/2 cup nutritional yeast; 1/3 cup soy marg; 1 1/2 cup water; 1-2 sloshes soy sauce; 2 tsp mustard; pepper to taste

Why it works: Mustard and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,430 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Bohemian Girl Mac 'n Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Toast flour and yeast in a pan until they smell nutty. Add marg and stir til bubbly. Add water and cook until it thickens, stirring constantly. When it is thick, stir in the remaining ingredients.
Stir this into a pot of shells or elbows or penne.

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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.

Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together15,430 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Flour + mustardtop 13% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,066 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sauce + mustardtop 13% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together2,120 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together8,078 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sauce, pepper):

Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Shallotbetter flavor fit
Horseradishabout as good a flavor fit
Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sauce, pepper. 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).