Name: Red Wine and Orange Marinated Beef Skewers
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 7 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups red wine; 1/2 cup steak sauce (e.g. A-1); 3 oranges, sliced into rounds; 1 bunch green onions, sliced; 4 small red chile peppers, seeded and finely chopped; 4 large cloves garlic, minced; 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger; salt and pepper, to taste; 3 pounds beef sirloin steak, boneless, cut across the grain into 1/4 inch strips

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Red Wine and Orange Marinated Beef Skewers

6 servings

Prep20 min

Cook7 min

Ingredients

2 cups red wine
1/2 cup steak sauce (e.g. A-1)
3 oranges, sliced into rounds
1 bunch green onions, sliced
4 small red chile peppers, seeded and finely chopped
4 large cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
salt and pepper, to taste
3 pounds beef sirloin steak, boneless, cut across the grain into 1/4 inch strips

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

399Calories

29 gProtein

15 gFat

30 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	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.

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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.

Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,833 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,987 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, sauce, onion, pepper, clove, garlic, ginger):

Limefits better
Plumfits better
Lemonfits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, sauce, onion, pepper, clove, garlic, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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