Name: Indio Viejo
Ingredients: 2 pounds of red or black beans; 1 big onion; 1 big bell pepper; 1 small handful of green onions; 1 stick of margarine; 2 tomatoes; 1 1/2 cups of butter milk or sour cream; 1 dozen eggs; Salt, pepper, garlic, and vinager

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Indio Viejo

Ingredients

Directions

Put the meat into cold water and begin cooking it with the onion, a green pepprer, half a head of garlic, a teaspoon of salt, and a teaspoon of pepper grains until the meat is tender and well flavored.
Take out the meat and slice it into skinny strips.
While the meat is cooking, mash and mix the tortilla dough up with the cheese. Take 4 ounces of this dough and make a tortilla out of it (if you don't know how to make the dough than just buy tortillas at the market).
Mix the rest of the dough with the paprika, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper, mix it all up with 2 cups of the mix that the meat cooked in, and mix in two well-beaten eggs.
Put the butter or oil in a pan to melt and then slice and fry an onion and a green pepper in it until they are nice and dead. Then add in the meat and fry it all for about five minutes longer, adding in the egg and dough mix.
Let it all cook on a low fire for a while, stirring it occasionally so that it doesn't stick.
Add in the allspice and sprinkle it with salt and the orange juice. It needs to be a little bit moist so add in some of the water from the orginal meat cooking if it's dry.
Now take the meat and dough mix and wrap it up in the tortilla and cut the whole thing into serving sizes.
Category:Nicaraguan Recipes
Category:Nicaraguan Vegetarian

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

650Calories

43 gProtein

27 gFat

62 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 11 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 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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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,935 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,242 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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, tomato, butter, egg, garlic):

Beansthe original
Chickpeafits about as well
Black-eyed peafits about as well
Sesamefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, tomato, butter, egg, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.