Why it works: Beef and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 576 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓
Beef Palates with Cucumbers
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the beef palates by cleaning and cooking them until tender.
Slice the cucumbers thinly.
Serve the beef palates with the sliced cucumbers arranged on the side.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Beef + cucumbertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together576 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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