Name: Thane Prince's Gluten-free Beef Cobbler
Yield: Serves 3 - 4
Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 large onion , chopped; 1 medium carrot , chopped; 2 celery sticks, chopped; 1 plump garlic clove , crushed; 500g fresh beef mince; few sprigs fresh thyme; 400g can of tomatoes with juice; 150ml/¼ pint beef stock; 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; handful of chopped parsley; 225g gluten-free flour; ½ tsp gluten-free baking powder; 50g butter , chopped; 50g Red Leicester , grated; 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves; 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley; 150ml low fat natural yogurt

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. 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.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,563 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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 (olive, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, beef, thyme):

Parsleyfits better
Cuminfits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, beef, thyme. 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
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1

Thane Prince's Gluten-free Beef Cobbler