Why it works: Tomato and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,438 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Roast Tomatas
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat your Dutch oven or prepare a dripping pan.
Remove the stalks from the tomatoes.
Place the tomatoes gently in the oven or at the edge of the dripping pan, ensuring no fat from the meat drips onto them.
Turn the tomatoes occasionally to ensure even roasting.
Roast for 10 to 14 minutes until tender.
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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Tomato + meattop 17% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,438 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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