Name: Baja Bruja Soup Recipe
Ingredients: 12 potatoes cut into big chunks (too small will get mushy); Large can whole tomatoes - chop, slice or squeeze with your hands; Garlic to taste; Whole onion, chopped large; Vegetable bouillon cube, at least 2-3; Fresh green chilies, chopped fine; Seasoning

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Baja Bruja Soup Recipe

Ingredients

12 potatoes cut into big chunks (too small will get mushy)
Large can whole tomatoes - chop, slice or squeeze with your hands
Garlic to taste
Whole onion, chopped large
Vegetable bouillon cube, at least 2-3
Fresh green chilies, chopped fine
Seasoning

Directions

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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.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,019 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together14,075 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,797 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4,512 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, garlic, onion):

Chivebetter flavor fit
Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, garlic, onion. 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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