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Pan-roasted Fillet of Beef with Lobster Ravioli and Spring Vegetables

A showy, high-class dish to impress your friends, combining tender beef fillet and succulent lobster.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and beef work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 137 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, fish, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Lobster + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Cream + lobstertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Carrot + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,604 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + watercresstop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Salmon + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,401 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, garlic, egg, cream, wonton wrapper, lobster, watercress):

  1. Chivebetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, garlic, egg, cream, wonton wrapper, lobster, watercress. 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).