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Chipotle Beef Tacos with Caramelized Onions Recipe

This chipotle beef taco recipe uses fiery chipotle peppers and flank or skirt steak for an easy, spicy weeknight dinner.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Chipotle Beef Tacos with Caramelized Onions Recipe

Why it works: Onion and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,205 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Chipotle Beef Tacos with Caramelized Onions Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

561Calories
31 gProtein
32 gFat
35 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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 chow. 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. Onion + corntop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,205 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Sauce + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + corntop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sauce and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, corn):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.