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"Delicious and easy recipe that has the taste of Cabbage Rolls! A bag of slaw mix from the produce section, some ground beef along with several other ingredients and you have a fabulous dinner! Delicious served with dinner rolls."

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Why it works: Beef and onion 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

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr 15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Heat a large skillet over medium heat, add the ground beef and chopped onion, and cook, breaking up the meat, about 10 minutes until no pink remains and the beef reaches 160°F (71°C). Drain off the fat.

  2. Spread the coleslaw mix evenly in a 9x13-inch (23x33 cm) baking dish.

  3. Scatter the uncooked white rice over the coleslaw mix, then spread the beef and onion mixture over the top.

  4. In a bowl, stir the two cans of condensed tomato soup until smooth. Fill the empty soup can with water and stir that into the soup.

  5. Pour the soup mixture evenly over the beef in the baking dish, pressing gently so the rice is covered.

  6. Cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for about 60 minutes, until the rice is tender and the cabbage is soft.

  7. Let the casserole rest, uncovered, for 5 minutes before serving.

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. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  2. Beef + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,445 recipes

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

  3. Rice + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Beef + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Onion + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,622 recipes

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

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 (beef, rice, tomato):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, rice, tomato. 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).