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My Green Papaya Salad

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Papaya and mint work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Papaya + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together38 recipes

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

  2. Lime + minttop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together846 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together647 recipes

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

  5. Lime + papayatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thai basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, garlic, shallot, sugar, fish sauce, lime, beans):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Thai basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, garlic, shallot, sugar, fish sauce, lime, beans. 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).