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Spicy Rice Noodle Salad

See how to make a simple, spicy and delicious rice noodle salad.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,351 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Rice + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Rice + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sambal

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, garlic, vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, onion, carrot):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Sambalthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, garlic, vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, onion, carrot. 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).