Name: Tasty Meat Pie
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 2 - 9 inch pies
Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef; 1 onion, chopped; 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed vegetable beef soup, undiluted; 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup; 3 potatoes, peeled and cubed; 4 carrots, sliced; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon black pepper; 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tasty Meat Pie

2 - 9 inch pies

Cook45 min

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef
1 onion, chopped
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed vegetable beef soup, undiluted
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
3 potatoes, peeled and cubed
4 carrots, sliced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

672Calories

35 gProtein

35 gFat

57 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 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
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Pastry	not in our table	0
Pie	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 + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,107 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,555 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 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 carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, cream, mushroom, potato, pepper):

Chivefits about as well
Spinachfits about as well
Capsicumfits about as well
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, cream, mushroom, potato, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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