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Costa Rican Beef & Chayote

This is a great and healthy dish that embodies the great flavors of chayote squash, beef, curry and cilantro. Serve some quesadillas alongside this dish for a wonderful meal. Enjoy!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Chayote and corn work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Chayote + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, chayote, olive, onion, garlic, pepper, tomato):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, chayote, olive, onion, garlic, pepper, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).