Name: Ewa
Ingredients: beans; 2 ground tomatoes; pepper; Tomato sauce and paste; 1 sliced onion; Sugar for garnish

Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Ewa

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

Place some beans in a large pot (you may need to pick 'impurities' out of it depending on where you bought it).
Add ground tomatoes and peppers or tomato sauce and paste. Also add sliced or diced onions.
If you wish, you can also add meat or fish.
Cook until the beans are soft enough to eat.
Season with salt and pepper to get the exact taste that you want.

Serve

Eat by itself, or with rice, or with corn, or with bread, or with yams.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

121Calories

2 gProtein

0 gFat

29 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Bean	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).

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.

Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,713 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,242 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,733 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

Beans: Form the main body of the stew and provide starch and protein as they soften.
Tomatoes: Supply acidity, moisture and body that form the base of the stew.
Onion: Adds sweetness and aromatic depth as it softens during cooking.

Swap the onion

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

Capsicumfits better
Okrafits better
Sweet potatofits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, tomato, pepper, sauce, sugar. 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.