Name: Chicken Fried Steak with Gravy
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1-½ cup FOR THE STEAK:; 1-¼ teaspoon Bread Crumbs; 1-¼ teaspoon Salt, Divided; ½ teaspoons Black Pepper, Divided; ½ teaspoons Onion Powder, Divided; ½ teaspoons Garlic Powder, Divided; 1 cup Paprika; 3 whole Rounded All-purpose Flour; 3 Tablespoons Eggs; 1 Tablespoon Milk; 6 whole Worcestershire Sauce; 3 Tablespoons Individual Serving Size Cube Steaks; 3 Tablespoons Butter Or More If Needed For The Gravy; 2 cups Extra-virgin Olive Oil For Cooking; ¾ teaspoons FOR THE GRAVY:; ¾ teaspoons Flour

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 ↓

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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).
Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, pepper, onion, flour, egg, milk, sauce):

Capersfits better
Parsleyfits about as well
Nutmegfits about as well
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, onion, flour, egg, milk, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Chicken Fried Steak with Gravy