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Beef Stew with Red Wine Recipe

Stew is not a quick dish — even in the microwave. But hearty, homemade beef stew can be out of the microwave in an hour, still half the time it takes to...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Stew with Red Wine Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

952Calories
45 gProtein
17 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rutabaganot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Rosemary + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together708 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Rosemary + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together470 recipes

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

  4. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Rutabaga + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together138 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the rutabaga

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, flour, onion, rosemary, celery, potato, red wine):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Rutabagathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, flour, onion, rosemary, celery, potato, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.