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Texas Round Steak

A baked round steak with peppers, onions, and broth.

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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 ↓

Texas Round Steak

Oven325 °F
Time1-1 ½ hours

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Blend flour, salt and chili powder well and place in pie pan.

  2. Dredge meat in the flour mixture.

  3. Use about half of the mixture; discard the rest.

  4. Place oil in a heavy frying pan and heat to frying temperature over moderate heat.

  5. Add meat and brown on both sides.

  6. Transfer steaks to a 1 ½ quart casserole.

Make the sauce

  1. Fry peppers and onions over moderate heat in the pan in which the meat was browned, stirring frequently.

  2. Remove vegetables with a slotted spoon and spread over meat.

  3. Pour out any remaining fat.

  4. Add beef broth to frying pan and cook and stir over moderate heat to absorb and brown particles remaining in the pan.

  5. Add remaining ingredients to broth.

  6. Mix well and pour over meat.

  7. Stir the meat and vegetables lightly with a fork to distribute the broth and vegetables.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover tightly and bake at 325 °F for about 1-1 ½ hours or until the meat is tender.

  2. Serve 1 piece of steak with some of the sauce per serving.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

916Calories
42 gProtein
31 gFat
114 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Flowernot 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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Onion + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Round beef
Lean cut that becomes tender during long, covered, moist baking.
All-purpose flour
Coats the meat so it browns well and helps thicken the pan sauce.
Green peppers
Add a fresh, slightly bitter vegetable flavor that softens during cooking.
Onions
Add sweetness and savory depth as they soften and brown in the pan.
Fat-free beef broth
Adds liquid that keeps the meat moist and carries the seasoning into the sauce.
Tomato juice
Adds acidity and savory tomato flavor to the sauce.

The step that matters

Browning the meat before baking. Searing the floured steaks in hot oil builds browned flavor through the Maillard reaction. Browning also sets the coating, so the steaks hold their shape and the pan drippings can be used for the sauce.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, tomato, garlic, cumin):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Okrafits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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