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Chairo Paceńo

Chairo Paceño is a Bolivian stew made with beef, lamb, beans, vegetables, corn, wheat, and spices.

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Why it works: Lima beans and peas share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Chairo Paceńo

Timeat least one hour

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Pour the water into the pot in which chairo is to be prepared and place the pot over medium heat.

  2. As soon as it is warm, add the meat and chalona. Before it begins to boil, stir and add salt. Let it cook for at least one hour.

Add the vegetables and grains

  1. To this broth, add green peas, carrots and potato. Let it boil for fifteen minutes.

  2. Then add chuño and let it boil for another five minutes. Add white corn and wheat. Let it boil until potato is cooked.

Make the spiced sauce

  1. In a small pan, put oil and heat it at medium heat. Sauté the onion.

  2. Then add the cayenne pepper, cumin, oregano and black pepper; let it cook for ten minutes. Finally, add these spices to the chairo stew so that all the mixture cooks for ten more minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Remove the pot from the heat and add the green onion, parsley, oregano and mint.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

918Calories
47 gProtein
38 gFat
106 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 18 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Mint2 tbsp fresh (3g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Wheatnot 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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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. Lima beans + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Lima beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

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

  5. Corn + wheattop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Chalona
Dried salted lamb that seasons the broth and adds deep, savory meaty flavor.
Cow meat with bone
Bone and meat release gelatin and flavor into the broth, giving body to the stew.
Chuño
Freeze-dried potato that softens slowly and thickens the stew while adding a distinctive texture.
White corn
Cooked kernels stay firm and add chewy texture and substance to the stew.
Wheat grains
Cooked grains add chewy body and bulk, thickening the broth slightly.
Cayenne pepper
Provides heat and color that flavors the spiced sauce added to the stew.

The step that matters

Add the spiced mixture to the stew and cook it through. Cooking the spices in oil with onion blooms their fat-soluble aroma and tempers their raw bite before they are stirred into the broth, so the stew tastes evenly seasoned rather than sharp or dusty.

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, lamb, peas, carrot, potato, corn, wheat):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Lima beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, lamb, peas, carrot, potato, corn, wheat. 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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