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Cindy's Beef Tips

"This is very savory and the best beef tips I've ever made! Serve over mashed potatoes or steamed rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Cindy's Beef Tips

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Cindy's Beef Tips

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook3 hr 15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1108Calories
53 gProtein
44 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + canola oiltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, onion, beef, meat, canola oil, cream):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Nutmegfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper, onion, beef, meat, canola oil, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.