Green Pea Soup

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. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,137 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

3. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,887 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

4. Peas + flourtop 21% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together2,837 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

5. Butter + minttop 26% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together1,559 recipes

   Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, butter, flour):

1. Capersfits better
2. Jalapenofits better
3. Tarragonfits better
4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.