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Beef with Suya Sauce

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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 ↓

Beef with Suya Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blend the habanero pepper, onions, and tomatoes into a smooth paste.

  2. Heat the oil in a pot over medium heat. Add the tomato paste, and fry for about 3 minutes.

  3. Add the puréed pepper-onion-tomato mixture, and continue to fry for about 10 minutes.

  4. Stir in the seasoning cube, garlic powder, ginger powder, and salt to taste.

  5. Stir in the suya beef and bell pepper. Cook for another 3 minutes.

  6. Serve with white rice, boiled yam, spaghetti, or macaroni.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

486Calories
30 gProtein
30 gFat
25 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 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

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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

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