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Carne Aravada

"This is a chile and meat recipe which can be used for chili and beans or eaten with French fried potatoes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Carne Aravada

Why it works: Mexican oregano and cumin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 69 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Carne Aravada

4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr 15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

842Calories
40 gProtein
30 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Mexican Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

  1. Mexican oregano + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Garlic + mexican oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cumin + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together821 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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 (beef, meat, garlic, mexican oregano, flour, cumin, parsley):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Jalapenofits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, meat, garlic, mexican oregano, flour, cumin, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.