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Slow-cooking Goulash

A slow-cooked beef goulash with tomato sauce, onions, paprika, mushrooms, and sour cream.

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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 ↓

Slow-cooking Goulash

Oven350°F
Timesix to ten hours on low

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place meat in a slow cooking pot; add flour and toss until meat is coated.

  2. Add onion, optional garlic powder, salt, paprika, pepper and tomato sauce.

Cook

  1. Cook on low heat six to ten hours or until meat is tender.

  2. Beef may also be cooked in a covered three quart casserole in a preheated 350°F oven for three hours.

  3. Twenty minutes before serving, add mushrooms and sour cream.

Serve

  1. Serve over rice or in avocado halves.

  2. Note: venison may be substituted for beef.

  3. Can prepare ahead, can freeze.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

896Calories
61 gProtein
18 gFat
121 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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 + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  4. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 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

What each ingredient does

Beef chuck
Slow cooking breaks down connective tissue, leaving the meat tender and moist.
Flour
Coats the meat and thickens the sauce as it cooks.
Tomato sauce
Provides the liquid base and tangy acidity for the goulash.
Sour cream
Adds richness and a creamy texture when stirred in near the end.
Mushrooms
Contribute moisture, earthy flavor and soft texture to the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the sour cream. Sour cream can curdle or split if it boils for long, so it is added near the end of cooking, after the sauce is hot but off the boil, to keep it smooth.

Swap the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, flour, onion, pepper, tomato, sauce, mushroom):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Cuminfits less well
  4. Celeryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, flour, onion, pepper, tomato, sauce, mushroom. 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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