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Black-Eyed Pea Soup

"This is a great New Year's meal! Perfect on a cold winter night. Great comfort food. Serve with corn bread."

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Why it works: Black-eyed pea and cumin work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 24 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: soy, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cook the bulk pork sausage, ground beef and diced onion in a large pot over medium heat, breaking up the meat, until no pink remains and the meat reaches 160°F (71°C), about 10 minutes. Drain off excess fat.

  2. Add water to the pot and crumble in the beef bouillon cubes, stirring until dissolved.

  3. Stir in the drained black-eyed peas, diced tomatoes, the undrained diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, and the chopped green chilies.

  4. Stir in the Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, salt, molasses, ground black pepper and ground cumin.

  5. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer partially covered for about 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the flavors have blended.

  6. Taste and adjust the seasoning, then serve hot.

By allrecipes. 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. Black-eyed pea + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,669 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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