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Beef Fillet with Beetroot & Horseradish

Savour this special occasion healthy and herby beef fillet salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Beef Fillet with Beetroot & Horseradish

Why it works: Chervil and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Beef Fillet with Beetroot & Horseradish

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

468Calories
28 gProtein
29 gFat
23 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 11 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Beetrootnot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Chervilnot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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. Chervil + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together266 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Beetroot + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Shallot + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, shallot, sugar, vinegar, beetroot, chervil, chive):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, shallot, sugar, vinegar, beetroot, chervil, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.