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Cranberry Pot Roast By Michelle

"I make this for most of the Jewish holidays, but can work for any occasion. Can be frozen and reheated. Tastes even better the second day."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 66 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep5 min
Cook2 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the vegetable oil in a Dutch oven or heavy pot with a lid over medium-high heat for 2 minutes.

  2. Brown the beef chuck roast on all sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per side, then move it to a plate.

  3. Whisk together the tomato sauce, cranberry sauce, prepared horseradish, dry mustard powder, apple cider vinegar and red wine in a bowl until smooth.

  4. Pour the sauce mixture into the pot, return the roast to it, and spoon some sauce over the top.

  5. Cover the pot and braise in an oven preheated to 325°F (163°C) for about 2 hours 15 minutes, until the beef is fork-tender.

  6. Check that the thickest part of the roast reads at least 145°F (63°C), then rest it for 3 minutes before slicing.

  7. Slice or pull the beef against the grain and serve it with the cranberry sauce from the pot spooned over the top.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,813 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Tomato + red winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Beef + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,445 recipes

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

  5. Beef + red winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, tomato, sauce, cranberry, mustard, apple cider vinegar, red wine):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, tomato, sauce, cranberry, mustard, apple cider vinegar, red wine. 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).