Name: Sauted Mignon Fillets of Beef with Sauce Trianon
Ingredients: small fillets of beef; fried potato balls; parsley; Sauce Trianon

Why it works: Beef and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,866 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sauted Mignon Fillets of Beef with Sauce Trianon

Ingredients

small fillets of beef
fried potato balls
parsley
Sauce Trianon

Directions

Wipe and sauté the small fillets in a hot omelet pan.
Arrange the fillets in a circle around a mound of fried potato balls.
Sprinkle the potato balls with parsley.
Put Sauce Trianon on each fillet.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,866 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs

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Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs

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Cooked together3,650 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Beef + fried potatotop 50% of all pairs

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Cooked together0 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Fried potato + saucetop 77% of all pairs

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