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Egg Foo Young

"This is an easy recipe to make at home. Green onion, celery, bean sprouts and shrimp sauteed in soy sauce and combined with egg."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Egg Foo Young

Why it works: Sesame and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,192 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Egg Foo Young

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

855Calories
47 gProtein
21 gFat
118 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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. Sesame + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

  2. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sesame + shrimptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Sesame + celerytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Onion + shrimptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, onion, shrimp, sauce, egg):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, onion, shrimp, sauce, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.