Name: Beef Rendang Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 800 Rump beef cut into cubes; g Sesame oil; 3 Vegetable oil; tbsp Sweet potato, peeled and cubed; 3 Shallots peeled and left whole; tbsp Cloves of garlic (crushed); 1 Fresh ginger, peeled and grated; 16 Red chilli, seeded and finely diced; 4 Turmeric; 1 Ground cinnamon; tbsp Cinnamon Stick; 1 Malaysian curry powder; 2 Black pepper; tsp Lemon rind strips; 2 Thick coconut milk; tsp Beef stock; 0.5 Sugar; 1 Pinch of sea salt and black pepper

Why it works: Ginger and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

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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.

Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,776 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Shallot + turmerictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together282 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Sweet potato + shallottop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Clove + turmerictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,876 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sesame, sweet potato, shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric):

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Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sesame, sweet potato, shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Beef	100g cooked	250
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	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

Beef Rendang Recipe