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Mexican Sausage Pie

A baked pie with pork sausage, tomato paste, corn, and a cornmeal crust.

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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 ↓

Mexican Sausage Pie

Oven450°F
Time20 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Brown pork sausage, then drain off the fat.

  2. Add dry onion soup mix, water, tomato paste, frozen corn, chili powder, red pepper, and powdered garlic.

  3. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Assemble and bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish.

  2. Mix cornmeal, egg, and milk.

  3. Spoon the mixture over the top.

  4. Bake at 450°F for 20 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

624Calories
47 gProtein
29 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Cornmeal
Forms the crust-like topping that bakes firm and golden over the filling.
Egg
Binds the cornmeal topping so it sets rather than crumbling.
Milk
Adds moisture to the cornmeal topping so it bakes tender.
Tomato paste
Provides concentrated tomato flavor, body, and acidity to the filling.
Pork sausage
Supplies fat and savory meat flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Draining the sausage fat. Leftover fat left in the filling can make the pie greasy and loose, and it can keep the topping from setting properly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, tomato, corn, pepper, garlic, egg, milk):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, tomato, corn, pepper, garlic, egg, milk. 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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