Name: Easy Stew Beef
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 4 h
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 can (10 Oz. Size) Cream Of Mushroom Soup (any Brand Is Fine); 1 can (10 Oz. Size) French Onion Soup (I Use Walmart Brand); ½ teaspoons Minced Garlic (I Use The Jar Minced Garlic); 2 pounds Stew Beef, Cubed; 2 pinches Pepper; ¼ cups Water, Only If Needed

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 ↓

Easy Stew Beef

Serves 4

Prep5 min

Cook4 hr

Ingredients

1 can (10 Oz. Size) Cream Of Mushroom Soup (any Brand Is Fine)
1 can (10 Oz. Size) French Onion Soup (I Use Walmart Brand)
½ teaspoons Minced Garlic (I Use The Jar Minced Garlic)
2 pounds Stew Beef, Cubed
2 pinches Pepper
¼ cups Water, Only If Needed

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

370Calories

30 gProtein

21 gFat

15 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Soup	not in our table	0
Stew	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,092 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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