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Tangy Pickled Mushrooms

"Mushrooms make a great pickle, but they don't keep as long as many other vegetables."

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Tangy Pickled Mushrooms

Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Tangy Pickled Mushrooms

2 pint jars
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

82Calories
4 gProtein
0 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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 + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Ginger + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, ginger, onion, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, ginger, onion, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.