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Rice Noodles with Shiitakes, Choy, and Chiles

"A delicious twist on noodles if you are getting tired of the spaghetti routine. If you can't find fresh rice noodles, cooked dried rice noodles work just fine. Dried rice noodles, as well as fresh rice noodles, can be found in many supermarkets as well as Asian markets. You can use sherry in place of the sake, and Chinese black vinegar in place of the balsamic, if you like."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sake and shiitake work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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4 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Sake + shiitaketop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Sesame + shiitaketop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Garlic + shiitaketop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Canola oil + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Sesame + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sake, vinegar, sugar, canola oil, sesame, pepper):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sake, vinegar, sugar, canola oil, sesame, 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).