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Beef Apricot Stir-Fry

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Why it works: Lime and chayote share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lime + chayotetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 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

Flavor stand-ins for the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, olive, beef, pepper, onion, cumin, avocado):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, olive, beef, pepper, onion, cumin, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).