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Korean Crab Cakes

"Crab cakes with a Korean flair! These are great, I like to eat them with sweet and sour sauce, or hoisin sauce! Tasty!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Korean Crab Cakes

Why it works: Ginger and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,800 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Korean Crab Cakes

4 crab cakes
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

769Calories
44 gProtein
20 gFat
99 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Peanut Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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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. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

  2. Shrimp + peanut oiltop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together106 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + shrimptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Ginger + peanut oiltop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish sauce, shrimp, bread, pepper, peanut oil):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Gingerthe original
  4. Corianderfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish sauce, shrimp, bread, pepper, peanut oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.