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Filet Mignon with Mushroom Sauce

A rich and melt-in-your-mouth dish for any special occasion. Perfectly cooked steak with a delightful mushroom sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Filet Mignon with Mushroom Sauce

Why it works: Garlic and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,700 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Filet Mignon with Mushroom Sauce

Serves 2
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

377Calories
29 gProtein
27 gFat
5 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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 tastykitchen. 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. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, mushroom):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

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