Name: Chaptek IV
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of bacon fat; 2 tablespoons of flour; 1 clove of garlic chopped very fine; 1 tablespoon of butter; 3 drops of onion juice; 1 cup of cream; 1 cup of boiled rice; 1 cup flaked crab meat; 1 cup solid canned tomatoes; 2 tablespoons butter; 2 cup heavy cream; one teaspoon butter; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 4 teaspoon paprika; 1 cup milk; 1 cup cold; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1 cup of mashed potatoes; 1 teaspoon of butter; 2 cups of cold boiled rice add 1 tin of sardines from which the bones; 2 cups of bread crumbs from inside of bread; 2 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon onion juice; 2 teaspoons lemon juice; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon flour rubbed smooth; 1 cup boiling milk; 4 tablespoons butter; 4 tablespoons flour; 1 tablespoon onion

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 ↓

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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).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Cream + crabtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together317 recipes

Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon fat: Fries the onions and forms the base for the sauce, carrying flavour.
Flour: Browns with the fat and thickens the tomato sauce.
Tomatoes: Provide liquid and acidity that build the body of the sauce.

The step that matters

Stir the flour until golden brown. Flour cooked in fat must brown evenly; undercooked flour tastes raw and pasty, while over-browned flour loses thickening power and turns bitter.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, garlic, butter, onion, cream, rice, crab):

Capersfits better
Turmericfits better
Parsleyfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, garlic, butter, onion, cream, rice, crab. 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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Sardine	100g canned drained	208
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Halibut	100g cooked	140
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Lobster	100g cooked	98
Oyster	6 medium (84g)	81
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Cayenne	1 tsp (1.8g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Stuffing	not in our table	0
Mace	not in our table	0

Chaptek IV

Chaptek IV

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

Prepare the fish

Bake and serve

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)