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All-American Roast Beef

Tying the roast, and cooking at high heat, ensure even roasting.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 18,971 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 450°F (232°C). Pat the beef eye of round roast dry with paper towels.

  2. In a small bowl, mix the kosher salt, garlic powder and black pepper. Rub the mixture evenly over all sides of the roast.

  3. Set the roast on a rack in a roasting pan. Roast for 15 minutes at 450°F (232°C) to brown the outside.

  4. Reduce the oven to 325°F (163°C). Roast for 35 to 40 minutes more, until the thickest part of the beef reads at least 145°F (63°C) on a meat thermometer.

  5. Transfer the roast to a cutting board, loosely tent with foil and let it rest for 5 minutes.

  6. Slice the beef thinly against the grain and 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. Beef + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,971 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  3. Beef + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper. 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).