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Beef Tenderloin with Ginger-Shiitake Brown Butter

"Asian inspired flavors with a French technique give this dish it's own uniqueness. It's easy to make as well!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

4 steaks
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Butter + saketop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Garlic + shiitaketop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Shiitake + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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