Name: Feijão Tropeiro
Ingredients: 2 lbs pinto beans; 2 lbs sausage of your choice (mild Italian is good in this dish); 2 cloves garlic; 2 small yellow onions; ½ pound slab bacon; 4 hard boiled eggs; 1 bunch green onions , chopped; 1 bunch collard greens; 2 tbsp olive oil

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Feijão Tropeiro

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Prepare beans according to their package. Drain and set aside to cool.
Slice collard greens into small (⅛-inch) strips.

Cook

In a large pan, cook bacon and sausage. Remove them from the pan.
Slice sausage into 1 inch-thick pieces.
In the pan with bacon grease, sauté yellow onions and garlic.

Combine and serve

Mix all ingredients except hard-boiled eggs in a large bowl using a wooden spoon.
Drizzle with olive oil and stir gently.
Garnish with sliced boiled eggs.
Serve hot or cold.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

663Calories

47 gProtein

37 gFat

36 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Pinto Bean	1/2 cup (86g) canned	122
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Collard Greens	1 cup (36g) raw	11
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,470 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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

What each ingredient does

Pinto beans: Form the bulk of the dish and give it a hearty, starchy body.
Sausage: Adds fat, savory flavor and meaty texture as it renders and browns.
Bacon: Its rendered fat carries flavor into the onions and greens.
Collard greens: Add leafy texture and a slightly bitter, fresh contrast to the rich meats.
Yellow onions: Soften and turn sweet in the bacon fat, building a savory base.
Hard boiled eggs: Add creamy richness and a mild contrast in texture as a garnish.