Name: Creamy Slow Cooked Swiss Steak Recipe
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 lb round steak, cut into serving portions and pounded flat; 1/2 cup flour to dredge meat in before sauteing; 1 large onion, halved and sliced pretty thin; 1 green pepper cut in rings; 2 cups mushrooms sliced (button or crimini are fine); 1 can of diced Italian tomatoes; 2 tablespoons of tomato paste; 1 can cream of mushroom soup; 1 can beef broth; 1 teaspoon worscestershire sauce; 2 tablespoons parsley; 2 tablespoons salt and pepper (1 for pounding the meat; 1 for the sauce); 2 tablespoons of olive oil and butter to saute the meat and vegetables.

Why it works: Mushroom and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

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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.

Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,092 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,719 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + beeftop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,448 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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, meat, onion, pepper, mushroom, cream, beef):

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Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, meat, onion, pepper, mushroom, cream, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Creamy Slow Cooked Swiss Steak Recipe