Name: Beef Strips with Crunchy Thai Salad
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 thick cut lean steaks , about 600g/1lb 5oz in total; 4 tsp lime juice; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar; 1 red chilli , deseeded and finely chopped; 200g bag crunchy salad mixed with 1bsp orangec juice; 50g carrot , grated (1 medium carrot); handful beansprouts

Why it works: Lime and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 646 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Beef Strips with Crunchy Thai Salad

Serves 4

Prep5 min

Ingredients

2 thick cut lean steaks , about 600g/1lb 5oz in total
4 tsp lime juice
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp light muscovado sugar
1 red chilli , deseeded and finely chopped
200g bag crunchy salad mixed with 1bsp orangec juice
50g carrot , grated (1 medium carrot)
handful beansprouts

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

94Calories

2 gProtein

0 gFat

23 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Salad	not in our table	0

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.

Lime + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together646 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + fish saucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together798 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + carrottop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,211 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Lime + sugartop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,332 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Fish sauce + carrottop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together242 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, fish sauce, sugar):

Sweet potatofits better
Capsicumfits better
Shallotfits better
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, fish sauce, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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