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Caldo De Res Recipe

This is a traditional Mexican dish with lots of flavor. Don't afraid of the time it takes, it is SO worth it.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and cumin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,272 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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10-12 servings

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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. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Potato + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Potato + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,797 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 potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, cabbage, corn, tomato, garlic, cumin, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, cabbage, corn, tomato, garlic, cumin, pepper. 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).