Name: BBQ Meat Feast Lasagne
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Barbecue sauce; 1 medium onion (chopped); 4 cloves of garlic (chopped); 1 chilli (chopped); 50g light brown sugar; 200ml white wine vinegar; 220ml tomato ketchup; 2 tbsp clear honey; 2 tsp smoked paprika; 2 tsp cayenne pepper (reduce/use hot chilli powder to make less hot); Pinch of salt; Pinch of pepper; 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes; Meat combination; 2 red onions (diced); Mushrooms (sliced); 1 clove of garlic (finely chopped/crushed); Chorizo sausage; Chicken; Smoked bacon; Pepperoni; Pieces of cooked meatball; (Any other meats can be used); Cheese sauce; Knob of butter; Plain flour; Milk; Cheese (grated); Dried lasagne sheets

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,776 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, onion, garlic, sugar, white wine, vinegar, tomato):

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Thymefits better
Capersfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, onion, garlic, sugar, white wine, vinegar, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Meatball	not in our table	0

BBQ Meat Feast Lasagne