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Garam Masala Braised Beef Short Ribs with Curried Spaetzle, Brussel Sprout 'cups', and Jicama Slaw Recipe

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Why it works: Beef and jicama work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beef + jicamatop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Leek + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, garlic, leek, carrot, celery, onion, red wine):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, garlic, leek, carrot, celery, onion, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).