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Asian-flavoured Beef Shin with Papaya Salad

An inexpensive cut of beef becomes meltingly tender with nearly five hours of cooking in a sweet and savoury sauce.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish sauce and papaya work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6-8
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: peanut, soy, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Fish sauce + papayatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Lime + papayatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

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

  5. Ginger + papayatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

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

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