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Beef 'n' Bean Burritos

"Serve your family this great dish with plenty of napkins: Ground beef, onion and a zesty sauce gets tucked into tortilla wrappers with sour cream, salsa and shredded cheese."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Beef 'n' Bean Burritos

Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,092 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef 'n' Bean Burritos

8 servings

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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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,092 recipes

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

  2. Onion + cheddar cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,669 recipes

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

  3. Beef + cheddar cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together951 recipes

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

  4. Cheddar cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,036 recipes

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

  5. Flour + cheddar cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, flour, cheddar cheese, cream):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, flour, cheddar cheese, cream. 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).