Name: My Country Style Steak
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1 pound cube steak, cut into bite size pieces; 1/2 cup all-purpose flour for coating; 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour; 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix; 2 cups water, or as needed; salt and pepper to taste; garlic salt to taste

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

My Country Style Steak

4 servings

Prep10 min

Cook1 hr

Ingredients

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 pound cube steak, cut into bite size pieces
1/2 cup all-purpose flour for coating
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
2 cups water, or as needed
salt and pepper to taste
garlic salt to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

874Calories

40 gProtein

30 gFat

106 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Flour + garlictop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,149 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32,460 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, garlic):

Kalefits better
Spinachfits better
Okrafits better
Onionthe original

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

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