Name: Plantain Tortillas
Ingredients: 2 or 3 ripe plantains; 1 Tbsp. sugar; 1/2 tsp. baking powder; Cooking Oil

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 92,116 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Plantain Tortillas

Ingredients

2 or 3 ripe plantains
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
Cooking Oil

Directions

Prepare the mixture

Mash the plantains with a fork and place them in a bowl.
Add the sugar and the baking powder.

Shape and fry

Mix well, then hand-make small cakes of the plantain mixture and fry them in oil.

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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.

Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe plantains: Provide the bulk, moisture and natural sweetness of the cakes.
Baking powder: Releases gas that lightens the cakes as they heat.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps the cakes brown in the oil.

“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.