Name: Beef Stroganoff with White Wine
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter; 1 (8 ounce) package sliced mushrooms; 1 large onion, diced; 4 cloves garlic, diced; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 1/2 pounds beef sirloin steak, cut into 1 inch cubes; 1 cup white wine; 2 cups beef bouillon; 1 teaspoon crumbled dried thyme; 1 teaspoon dried basil; 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano; 2 bay leaves; 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2 cups half-and-half cream

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Mushroom + white winetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,765 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, mushroom, onion, garlic, pepper, beef, white wine):

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Marjoramfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, mushroom, onion, garlic, pepper, beef, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Mushrooms	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Beef Stroganoff with White Wine