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Steak & Onions with Celeriac Mash

Take meat and two veg to new heights with this tasty midweek recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Steak & Onions with Celeriac Mash

Why it works: Onion and red wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,075 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Steak & Onions with Celeriac Mash

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

386Calories
9 gProtein
22 gFat
35 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Celeriacnot 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 + red winetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Milk + red winetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Milk + oniontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Red wine + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together864 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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 (milk, red wine, sugar):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, red wine, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.