Name: Stuffed Tomatoes and Crab
Ingredients: 20 cherry tomatoes; 1 cup mayonnaise; ⅓ cup finely chopped white onion; 1 pinch garlic powder; 1 hard boiled egg finely chopped; 1 teaspoon thyme; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 pound lump crabmeat

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Hollow out tomatoes then season with salt and drain.
Combine remaining ingredients and fill tomatoes then garnish with parsley.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Category:Cathy's Recipes
Category:Cherry tomato Recipes
Category:Mayonnaise Recipes
Category:Hard-boiled egg Recipes
Category:Crab Recipes

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together11,585 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,608 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together27,044 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cherry tomato + garlictop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together15 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

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

Lemonbetter flavor fit
Limebetter flavor fit
Avocadobetter flavor fit
Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, egg, thyme, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).