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Cabne Con Chili

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Cabne Con Chili

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the chile peppers thoroughly, removing seeds and stems.

  2. Parboil the peppers in salted water until soft.

  3. Grind the peppers using a grinding machine or mortar.

  4. Strain the ground peppers through a fine sieve, adding enough broth from boiled meat to create a thick gravy.

  5. In a pan, brown 1 tablespoon of flour in 4 tablespoons of lard.

  6. Add the chili gravy to the browned flour and cook until thick.

  7. Cut the meat into small pieces and boil in water with a little salt and mashed garlic for flavor.

  8. Strain the meat and mix it with the chili gravy, cooking for a few minutes.

  9. Optionally, add a little Spanish sage (oregano) to the chili while grinding for extra flavor.

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.

  1. Sage + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,756 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Garlic + sagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,025 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, flour, sage, oregano):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Rosemaryfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, flour, sage, oregano. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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