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Pan-Fried Mushrooms with Ricotta Cheese

"Eat this dish as a side or my personal favorite is topping a grilled sirloin or peppered steak with the mushrooms and drippings. You can use whole or sliced mushrooms. Taste and add garlic powder and seasoned salt if you want more of a taste to it."

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Pan-Fried Mushrooms with Ricotta Cheese

Why it works: Mushroom and beef 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 ↓

Pan-Fried Mushrooms with Ricotta Cheese

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

548Calories
40 gProtein
37 gFat
9 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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.

  1. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Mushroom + red winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together720 recipes

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

  5. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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 (butter, mushroom, red wine, vinegar, beef, ricotta cheese):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Rosemaryfits about as well
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Pepperfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, mushroom, red wine, vinegar, beef, ricotta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.