Name: Meat and Carrots
Ingredients: meat; carrots; onion; seasoning

Why it works: Carrot and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,601 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Meat and Carrots

Ingredients

meat
carrots
onion
seasoning

Directions

Fill a dish with meat, carrots, and sometimes an onion.
Add plenty of seasoning.
Cover the dish and let it cook in the oven.
When ready, open the oven to find your dinner steaming and done.

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.

Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Meat + oniontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,364 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + carrottop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,905 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).