Name: Boiled Green Peas
Ingredients: good sweet peas; salt to taste; thin raw peanut milk; white flour (optional)

Why it works: Peas and peanut work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Boiled Green Peas

Ingredients

good sweet peas
salt to taste
thin raw peanut milk
white flour (optional)

Directions

Prepare

Shell and wash the peas thoroughly.

Cook

Boil the peas in hot water until tender, about 10 minutes.
Add salt to taste 10 minutes before they are done.
Drain the peas and pour cooked thin raw peanut milk over them.
Let it boil once and serve.
If desired, thicken with a little white flour.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

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.

Peas + peanuttop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Peanut + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,048 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Peanut + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,427 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Peas + milktop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,309 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

What each ingredient does

Good sweet peas: Form the main body of the dish and provide its sweet, tender texture when boiled.
Thin raw peanut milk: Adds richness and body to the peas as the liquid coating poured over them.
White flour: Thickens the peanut milk coating when used, giving it a heavier consistency.