Name: Creole Tomatoes
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons butter; 1 tablespoon flour; 1 cup milk; 2 tablespoons; 2 tablespoons of butter; 1 cup chicken; 2 cups cream; 1 cup of cold; 2 teaspoon each of salt; 2 cups of thin cream; 2 cups chicken; 2 cups of ground; 4 tablespoons cream; 1 tablespoon butter; one cup of cold chicken chopped fine; 2 cup of bread crumbs; 4 tablespoons of cream; 1 cup bread crumbs; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup bread crumbs add ½ cup milk; 2 dashes black pepper; 1 pinch cayenne; two tablespoons butter; 2 tablespoons flour; 1 pint of milk; a small piece of butter on each piece of tomato; a tablespoon of butter; a pinch of cayenne; 4 large tomatoes; 1 small onion

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. 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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,031 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes: Soften when baked and provide the juicy, tangy base of the dish.
Butter: Adds richness and carries flavor over the tomatoes and into the sauce.
Flour: Thickens the sauce when browned in butter and stirred with the liquid.
Milk: Forms the liquid base of the cream sauce, giving it body and smoothness.
Cream: Enriches the sauce, adding fat for a smoother, silkier texture.

The step that matters

Stirring the sauce until boiling. Flour must be cooked in butter and brought to a boil while stirred, or the sauce stays pasty and tastes raw and floury instead of smooth.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, milk, chicken, cream, bread, pepper):

Potatofits better
Capsicumfits better
Leekfits about as well
Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, milk, chicken, cream, bread, pepper. 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
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Cayenne	1 tsp (1.8g)	6
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Mace	not in our table	0

Creole Tomatoes

Creole Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

Bake and make the sauce

Serve

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)