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Organic Brined Beef with Mash Recipe

Salted beef with creamy mash and freshly stewed vegetables. Serve with pickles and a mustard of your choice.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Organic Brined Beef with Mash Recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr 40 min
Cook1 hr 40 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

468Calories
30 gProtein
15 gFat
52 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 lovefood. 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. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cinnamon + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Beef + cinnamontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,627 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Sugar + potatotop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the potato

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

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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