Monastery Gyuvetch

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together15,539 recipes

   Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

2. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together3,232 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

3. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together9,649 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

4. Rice + olivetop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together4,994 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

5. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together3,065 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Braising beef

Provides the main meat, which becomes tender through long slow cooking in liquid.

Rice

Absorbs the stock and thickens the liquid as it cooks, giving the dish body.

Tomatoes

Add acidity and moisture that combine with the stock to form the sauce.

Olives

Add a salty, briny flavour that contrasts with the sweet and savoury elements.

Mushrooms

Release their moisture and savoury flavour into the sauce as they simmer.

Butter

Adds richness and fat, rounding out the flavour of the sauce.

The step that matters

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, tomato, mushroom, rice, onion, olive, butter):

1. Garlicfits better
2. Thymefits better
3. Celeryfits about as well
4. Parsleythe original

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