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Beef Steak Salad with Dried Cherries

"Tender slices of marinated and stir-fried sirloin steak, dried cherries, pine nuts, and blue cheese are served on Boston lettuce for a memorable lunch or light supper."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Beef Steak Salad with Dried Cherries

Why it works: Pine and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,062 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Beef Steak Salad with Dried Cherries

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

853Calories
40 gProtein
59 gFat
47 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)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.

  1. Pine + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Lettuce + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pine + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Lettuce + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together486 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, lettuce, blue cheese, pine, olive, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, lettuce, blue cheese, pine, olive, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.