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Meat Pillows

"Easy appetizer sure to please. Few ingredients, cheap to buy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Meat Pillows

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Meat Pillows

24 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

357Calories
28 gProtein
25 gFat
3 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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

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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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,220 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Garlic + beeftop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cream cheese + olivetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,003 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Cream cheese + beeftop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, olive, beef):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Rosemaryfits about as well
  3. Capersfits less well
  4. Oreganofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, olive, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.