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Gingery Mung Bean Sprouts Pancake

"This is a savory pancake. Make it with plenty of mung bean sprouts! Unlike other bean sprouts, mung sprouts are eaten cooked in Japan. They are economical and nutritious! I created this recipe for my wheat-free diet, but if you like go ahead and use wheat flour for barley flour. It tastes like good old Japan to me!!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mung bean and sesame share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

1 pancake
Prep15 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

  1. Whisk together the barley flour, sea salt and 1/4 cup water in a bowl until smooth and no lumps remain.

  2. Stir the minced fresh ginger root, tamari and mung bean sprouts into the batter until the sprouts are evenly coated.

  3. Heat the vegetable oil in a 8-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat for about 1 minute until shimmering.

  4. Pour the batter into the skillet and spread it into a round pancake about 1/2 inch thick with a spatula.

  5. Cook for about 4 minutes until the bottom is golden and set, then flip carefully and cook another 3 to 4 minutes until the second side is golden.

  6. Slide the pancake onto a plate, drizzle the sesame oil over the top, and sprinkle with ground cayenne pepper if using.

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. Mung bean + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  2. Ginger + mung beantop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  3. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Ginger + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,799 recipes

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

  5. Barley + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, barley, flour, mung bean, pepper):

  1. Sesamethe original
  2. Beansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, barley, flour, mung bean, pepper. 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).