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Cowboy Coffee Tri Tip

Santa Maria style tri-tip is a garlicky salty beef cut that is served with pinquito bean, a miniature cousin of the pink bean that is only grown in the California central coast region.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Cowboy Coffee Tri Tip

Why it works: Garlic and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,082 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cowboy Coffee Tri Tip

Serves 6
Prep35 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

328Calories
28 gProtein
16 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coffeenot in our table0

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 + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  2. Beef + coffeetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  3. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Beef + garlictop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Beef + cumintop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,055 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, coffee, garlic, sugar):

  1. Gingerfits about as well
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Cuminthe original
  4. Capersfits about as well

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