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Beef Stir-fry with Broccoli & Oyster Sauce

A convenient and tasty beef dish that can serve, two, four or more

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Beef Stir-fry with Broccoli & Oyster Sauce

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 ↓

Beef Stir-fry with Broccoli & Oyster Sauce

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

441Calories
41 gProtein
18 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Broccoli + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Sunflower + broccolitop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Broccoli + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, beef, broccoli, onion, garlic, oyster, sauce):

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

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