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Mild Thai Beef with a Tangerine Sauce

"This is a very tasty dish that is perfect for people, like myself, who don't enjoy spicy Thai restaurant food. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Mild Thai Beef with a Tangerine Sauce

Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mild Thai Beef with a Tangerine Sauce

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

510Calories
33 gProtein
29 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Saucenot in our table0
Tangerinenot in our table0
Pumpkinnot 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.

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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. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

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

  2. Sherry + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  3. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + butternut squashtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butternut squash + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sherry, ginger, beef, butternut squash, mushroom, onion):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

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