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Easy Oven Beef Stew

"Too busy to cook? Well, just put these four ingredients in the oven and forget about it. I like to use London broil. Great served over noodles! Try adding your favorite vegetables."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Easy Oven Beef Stew

Why it works: Onion and ginger are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,595 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Easy Oven Beef Stew

6 to 8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook4 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

61Calories
3 gProtein
0 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

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

  2. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Ginger + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together867 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.