Name: Sausage with Tomatoes
Ingredients: 8 links Deerfoot sausage; 2 tomatoes, chopped; 1 large onion, chopped

Why it works: Tomato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Sausage with Tomatoes

Ingredients

8 links Deerfoot sausage
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 large onion, chopped

Directions

Place the sausage links in a bag.
Chop the tomatoes and onion finely.
Spread the chopped tomatoes and onion evenly over the sausage.
Cook for 20 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.

Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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What each ingredient does

Sausage: Provides the main protein and fat, and browns as it cooks.
Tomatoes: Add moisture and acidity that help flavour the sausage as it cooks.
Onion: Adds sweetness and aroma as it softens and mingles with the juices.

“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.