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Steak and Kidney Pie

Steak and Kidney Pie With Port and Pickled Walnuts. Opies pickled walnuts are harvested before the shell forms. Cooked and marinated in a secret spiced malt vinegar recipe, they are then packed into jars by hand.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Steak and Kidney Pie

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Steak and Kidney Pie

Makes 1 pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

528Calories
34 gProtein
37 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Pastrynot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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 + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Clove + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, walnut, beef, egg):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, walnut, beef, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.