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Cold Rare Roast Beef with Dill and Mustard

A perfect partnership of beef and dill from Lucas Hollweg

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and dill share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Cold Rare Roast Beef with Dill and Mustard

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

603Calories
33 gProtein
43 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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.

By lovefood. 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. Sunflower + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sunflower, pepper, mustard, red wine, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Dillthe original

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