Name: Tripe Creole
Ingredients: 1 pound tripe; 1 large onion, chopped; 1 small green pepper, sliced; 6 mushrooms, chopped; 2 tomatoes, skinned, seeded, and chopped; Salt and pepper to taste; ½ cup thick gravy

Why it works: Mushroom and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Tripe Creole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Slice the tripe into half-inch pieces.
Chop the onion and slice the green pepper.
Chop the mushrooms and tomatoes after skinning and seeding them.

Combine and cook

Combine the tripe, onion, green pepper, mushrooms, and tomatoes in a bowl.
Season with salt and pepper, then mix well.
Add the thick gravy and cook for 45 minutes.

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.

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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.

Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,719 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,626 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 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

Tripe: Forms the main body of the dish, giving it a chewy, meaty texture.
Thick gravy: Adds moisture and richness, coating the ingredients as they cook.
Tomatoes: Contribute acidity and moisture that help make up the Creole-style sauce.
Onion: Adds aromatic sweetness and depth of flavour as it softens during cooking.