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Dripping Roast Beef Sandwiches with Melted Provolone

"In less than 15 minutes, you can put together these mouthwatering, restaurant-style sandwiches that get a kick from banana peppers and cheesy goodness from melted provolone. Enjoy!"

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Why it works: Onion and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,091 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy, fish, sesame (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. Preheat the broiler to high and set an oven rack about 6 inches (15 cm) from the heat.

  2. Pour the condensed French onion soup into a small saucepan, stir in the Worcestershire sauce, and heat over medium until simmering, about 3 minutes. Add a splash of water if it is too thick to stir easily.

  3. Add the thinly sliced roast beef to the soup and stir gently for about 2 minutes until heated through.

  4. Split the hoagie rolls and place them cut side up on a baking sheet. Broil for about 1 minute until lightly toasted.

  5. Divide the roast beef among the bottom halves of the rolls. Top each with provolone pieces and drained banana pepper rings.

  6. Broil the open sandwiches for 1 to 2 minutes until the cheese melts. Close the rolls and serve with the warm soup for dipping.

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 + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Beef + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Beef + provolone cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Onion + provolone cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, sauce, beef, sesame, provolone cheese):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, sauce, beef, sesame, provolone cheese. 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).