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Hanger Steak Breakfast Tacos with Avocado Mash

Flour tortillas filled with grilled hanger steaks, scrambled eggs, mashed avocado and pico de gallo.

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Hanger Steak Breakfast Tacos with Avocado Mash

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Hanger Steak Breakfast Tacos with Avocado Mash

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

899Calories
39 gProtein
69 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Taconot 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 + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, garlic, thyme, pepper, tomato, onion, avocado):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, garlic, thyme, pepper, tomato, onion, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.