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"Instead of ordering out Chinese food, do it yourself. Great with white rice or sticky rice (jasmine rice). Family recipe! Substitute beef with 1/2-inch pieces chicken breast prepared the same as the beef above or 2 cups cooked shrimp prepared as above."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Bamboo shoots and broccoli share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, shellfish (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. Rinse the white rice, then put it in a covered pot with the water. Bring to a boil, reduce to low, and simmer about 20 minutes until tender. Keep covered off the heat for 10 minutes before serving.

  2. Put the beef pieces in a bowl with the dried minced onion, minced garlic, and the optional soy sauce. Toss well and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

  3. Mix the cornstarch with the water in a small bowl to make a slurry. In another bowl, combine the 3 tablespoons soy sauce, the oyster sauce, and the optional red pepper flakes.

  4. Heat half the vegetable oil in a large skillet over high heat. Cook the beef in batches, searing 2 to 3 minutes per side until browned and it reaches 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part. Rest 3 minutes, then set aside.

  5. Add the remaining oil to the skillet. Stir-fry the broccoli, green bell pepper, bamboo shoots, optional mushrooms, optional sugar snap peas, and the first 1/4 cup chopped green onion for 4 to 5 minutes until crisp-tender.

  6. Return the beef and any juices to the skillet. Pour in the sauce mixture and stir to coat.

  7. Stir the cornstarch slurry again, pour it into the skillet, and cook 1 to 2 minutes, stirring, until the sauce thickens.

  8. Spoon the beef and vegetables over the rice. Garnish with the remaining 1/4 cup chopped green onion and 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. Bamboo shoots + broccolitop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + broccolitop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + broccolitop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, sauce, rice, bamboo shoots, mushroom, pepper):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, sauce, rice, bamboo shoots, mushroom, pepper. 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).