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Stir-Fried Tri-tip with Radicchio

Although tri-tip is often grilled, the meat’s leanness and stringy muscle structure make it a better candidate for stir-frying. When stir-fried, the meat can absorb the flavors of the other ingredients, rather than drying out from the heat of a grill. When you add the pieces of meat to the hot pan, be sure to distribute them evenly so that they brown nicely and cook uniformly. Cook the meat in batches, if necessary, to avoid overcrowding.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Stir-Fried Tri-tip with Radicchio

Why it works: Shallot and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Stir-Fried Tri-tip with Radicchio

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

491Calories
27 gProtein
40 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Radicchionot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Shallot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + watercresstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together684 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, butter, watercress, red wine):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, olive, butter, watercress, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.