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All Day Venison Pot Roast

"My step-daughters always refused to eat venison, so we had to come up with creative ways to disguise it. This very tender and savory slow cooker pot roast always had them coming back for more. It wasn't until years later we revealed the truth of the roast's origins! Serve roast, vegetables and gravy over mashed potatoes."

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Why it works: Venison and cream share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the chopped onions, carrots, and portobello mushrooms in the bottom of a large slow cooker.

  2. Rub the venison rump roast all over with the crushed garlic, ground black pepper, and salt if using.

  3. In a bowl, whisk the cream of mushroom soup, beef broth, 1/4 cup water, and dry onion gravy mix until smooth.

  4. Set the roast on the vegetables and pour the gravy mixture over it. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours, until the meat is very tender.

  5. Check the thickest part of the roast with a meat thermometer; it should reach at least 145°F (63°C). Let it rest 3 minutes before slicing.

  6. Slice or pull the meat, then spoon the sauce and vegetables over it to serve.

By allrecipes. 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. Venison + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Mushroom + beeftop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 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 carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, mushroom, venison, garlic, pepper, cream, beef):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, mushroom, venison, garlic, pepper, cream, beef. 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).