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Slow Cooker Beef Stew By Spice Islands®

"Dinner doesn't get easier than this rich beef stew loaded with veggies and fragrant with herbs--just let your slow cooker do the work."

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew By Spice Islands®

Why it works: Garlic and rosemary are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,180 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Beef Stew By Spice Islands®

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

937Calories
41 gProtein
30 gFat
117 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Stewnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Garlic + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Rosemary + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Rosemary + red winetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

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 (flour, sugar, rosemary, pepper, beef, meat, red wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, rosemary, pepper, beef, meat, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.