Name: Moroccan Spiced Beef with Herb Parmesan Dumplings
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 3 h
Yield: 8
Ingredients: ¼ cups FOR THE BEEF:; 2 pounds All-purpose Flour; 2 Tablespoons Beef Round Cubes; 4 cups Olive Or Canola Oil; 1 whole Beef Stock; 4 cloves Onion, Peeled And Diced; 1 teaspoon Garlic, Peeled And Minced; 2 teaspoons Sugar; 1 Tablespoon Smoked Paprika; ½ teaspoons Cumin; ½ teaspoons Cinnamon; 2 Tablespoons Turmeric; 1 cup Tomato Paste; 1 can Red Wine; 2 cups Salt And Pepper, to taste; ½ teaspoons White Cannellini Beans (15 Oz. Can) Rinsed And Drained; 1 teaspoon FOR THE DUMPLINGS:; 1 stick All-purpose Flour; ½ cups Baking Powder; 2 Tablespoons Salt; ¼ cups Unsalted Butter, Chilled And Cut Into 1" Pieces

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,306 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Olive + cumintop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,853 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, flour, olive, onion, garlic, sugar, cumin):

Turmericfits better
Oreganofits better
Jalapenofits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, flour, olive, onion, garlic, sugar, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Cannellini Bean	not in our table	0
Dumpling	not in our table	0

Moroccan Spiced Beef with Herb Parmesan Dumplings