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Black-Eyed Peas and Tortillas

"Simple, rich, and mildly spicy dish of black-eyed peas served in flour tortillas."

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Why it works: Onion and garlic 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 ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (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. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onion and cook, stirring, until softened, about 4 minutes.

  3. Stir in the minced garlic and chopped jalapeno pepper and cook for 1 minute more.

  4. Add the drained black-eyed peas and vegetable stock. Bring to a simmer and cook, mashing some of the peas with a spoon, until most of the liquid is absorbed, about 6 minutes.

  5. Stir in the lime juice and season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove from the heat.

  6. Warm the flour tortillas in a dry skillet over medium heat, about 30 seconds per side, or wrap them in foil and warm in a 350°F (177°C) oven for 5 minutes.

  7. Spoon the black-eyed pea mixture onto the warm tortillas and serve.

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Jalapeno + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together488 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Jalapeno + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Black-eyed pea + jalapenotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, black-eyed pea, jalapeno, pepper, garlic, lime, flour):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, black-eyed pea, jalapeno, pepper, garlic, lime, flour. 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).