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Skirt Steak Recipe with All Purpose Steak Rub and Chimichurri Sauce

This fast and easy steak rub recipe is my go to recipe for quick grilling, especially on cuts like skirt steak, flank steak and flap steak. Right now my favorite cut of beef is flap steak, sometimes called flap meat or bavette steak. It’s becoming more common and I’ve seen it Whole Foods but if you can’t find it, the more common skirt steak or flank steak works just as well. You may need to adjust the cook time though with the different steaks and their thicknesses. Don’t overcook the meat though, as these cuts get pretty tough beyond medium rare.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 983 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Skirt Steak Recipe with All Purpose Steak Rub and Chimichurri Sauce

Serves 4 people
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

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By eatthelove. 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. Cumin + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  3. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,082 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Oregano + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cumin, oregano, coriander, garlic, pepper, olive):

  1. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cumin, oregano, coriander, garlic, pepper, olive. 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).