Why it works: Black-eyed pea and onion work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 190 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Black-eyed pea + oniontop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together190 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together23,449 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together569 recipes
Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
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Pepper + fenneltop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,216 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the fennel
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (black-eyed pea, olive, onion, garlic, pepper, red wine, vinegar):
- Thymebetter flavor fit
- Cuminbetter flavor fit
- Parsleybetter flavor fit
- Fennelthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against black-eyed pea, olive, onion, garlic, pepper, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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