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Skillet Gumbo Recipe

This dish was inspired by my family wanting a quick and filling meal even though the fridge was low on supplies. If you want some variation, you can add shrimp...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 14,075 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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this shall feed 4-6 people depending on serving size

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

  1. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + okratop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Corn + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together895 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Corn + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,098 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Tomato + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, tomato, okra, pepper, rice):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, tomato, okra, pepper, rice. 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).