Name: Peas with Sour Cream
Ingredients: 2 lbs/1 kg peas,; 1 tablespoon butter,; 1 teaspoon flour,; 1 teaspoon sugar (optional),; 1 teaspoon chopped dill,; 1 cup sour cream, salt,; French pancakes (optional)

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peas with Sour Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

Melt the butter, add flour and lightly fry.
Add 1/2 cup water.

Finish and serve

Then add sour cream, sugar, salt, chopped dill and peas.
Simmer, covered, at low heat until the peas are done.
You may serve this with French pancakes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

772Calories

34 gProtein

14 gFat

125 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Pancake	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.

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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.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Peas + dilltop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together116 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Peas: Form the main body of the dish and cook down to a tender texture while simmering.
Sour cream: Adds richness and a tangy acidity that gives the sauce body and a creamy texture.
Flour: Thickens the sauce when lightly fried in butter before the liquid is added.
Butter: Provides fat for frying the flour and adds a rich, savoury flavour to the base.

The step that matters

Simmer gently with the lid on. Sour cream can curdle or separate if it boils hard, so low, covered heat keeps the sauce smooth while the peas cook through.

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, butter, flour, sugar, cream):

Nutmegfits better
Cinnamonfits better
Tarragonfits better
Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, butter, flour, sugar, cream. 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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Peas with Sour Cream