Why it works: Beef and spinach work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
Braised Tongue with Purée of Spinach
Ingredients
Directions
Braise the beef tongue as directed in your preferred method.
Prepare a purée of spinach by cooking the spinach until tender, then blending until smooth.
Serve the braised tongue on top of the spinach purée.
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.
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Beef + spinachtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together490 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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