Name: Daube De Boeuf: Slow-cooked French Beef Stew Recipe
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 6 h
Yield: 8 people
Ingredients: 2 shank, chuck or round of beef, cut into 5cm pieces; kg olive oil; 1 rindless streaky bacon, blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes, drained and cut into 1cm diced lardons; tbsp pork rind from a belly joint; 150 carrots, peeled and finely chopped; g onions, peeled and cut into small quarters; 400 tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and diced; g or 2 orange zest peelings about 12cm long in total; 1.5 caster sugar; 200 salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste; g chilled firm white porkfat (from belly), for larding; 500 cloves garlic, peeled; g small bunch flat-leaf parsley; 1 fine salt; 1 olive oil; pinch bottles red wine, preferably tannic; 1 sprigs fresh thyme; pinch bay leaf

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,690 recipes

Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
Carrot + orangetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Carrot + tomatotop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,606 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, olive, pork, carrot, onion, tomato, sugar):

Avocadofits better
Cherryfits better
Mangofits about as well
Orangethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

Daube De Boeuf: Slow-cooked French Beef Stew Recipe