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Peas with Tomatoes

A simple dish of peas cooked with tomatoes, onions, butter, dill, sugar, and salt.

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Why it works: Tomato and dill work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 511 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Peas with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the onions in butter until yellow.

  2. Add peas, peeled, seeded and chopped tomatoes, sugar, salt and dill.

  3. Simmer until the peas are done.

  4. There should be very little liquid left.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

283Calories
7 gProtein
12 gFat
39 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)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.

Explore the science

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. Tomato + dilltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together511 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  3. Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  4. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

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

  5. Peas + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 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

Peas
Make up the bulk of the dish and provide its tender, sweet body.
Tomatoes
Release their juice as they cook, forming the liquid base and adding acidity.
Onion
Softens and sweetens in the butter, forming the aromatic base of the dish.
Butter
Carries the heat for frying the onion and adds rich flavor.

The step that matters

Simmering until little liquid remains. Tomatoes release a lot of water as they cook. Reducing that liquid concentrates the flavor and keeps the dish from turning watery, while the peas must stay tender rather than overcooked.

Swap the dill

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, butter, tomato, onion, 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.

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