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Beef Steak with Vegetables

A 1‑pound steak stuffed with mushrooms, shallot, and parsley, then grilled or broiled, served with boiled vegetables and fried potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Beef Steak with Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steak

  1. Cut the steak to 1½ inches thick and weigh it at 1 pound.

  2. Mix the chopped mushroom, shallot, and parsley; season well.

  3. Stuff the mixture inside the steak and sew it up.

  4. Brush the steak with oil seasoned with cayenne, nutmeg, and herbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Grill or broil the steak for 20 to 30 minutes.

  2. Prepare the vegetables as for Brunoise Soup.

  3. Fry the potatoes in desired shapes.

  4. Serve the meat with the vegetables arranged around it.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  5. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steak
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the stuffing while cooking.
Mushroom
Adds moisture and savory, earthy flavor to the stuffing.
Shallot
Adds mild aromatic sweetness to the stuffing.
Potatoes
Frying gives them a browned, crisp exterior contrasting with the tender meat.

The step that matters

Grilling or broiling the stuffed steak. The stuffed steak is thick and the filling sits in the center, so the meat can char on the outside before the middle is cooked. Watching the 20 to 30 minute window and the heat helps the steak cook through evenly.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, mushroom, shallot, parsley, pepper, potato):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, mushroom, shallot, parsley, pepper, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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