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Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef

This is a yummy play on the old drip beef recipe my friend Hy shared with me years ago, and I made it last week as I was usin...

By thepioneerwoman · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef

Serves 16
Prep5 min
Cook4 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

669Calories
42 gProtein
43 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Provolone Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cherry Pepper1 cup (138g)87
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pimentonot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By thepioneerwoman. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Tomato + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,113 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Olive + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,889 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

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

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, beef, tomato, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherrythe original
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Limefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, beef, tomato, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.