Name: Cold Corn Beef Burta
Ingredients: minced onions; green chillies; lime juice; cold corned beef

Why it works: Onion and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cold Corn Beef Burta

Ingredients

minced onions
green chillies
lime juice
cold corned beef

Directions

Steep the minced onions and green chillies in lime juice.
Pound the cold corned beef until nicely tender.
Combine the beef with the steeped onions and chillies.
Add lime juice to taste.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,092 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + limetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,263 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + beeftop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together539 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).