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Vietnamese Summer Rolls

Summer rolls are a quick way to make a nice but easy starter

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 261 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vietnamese Summer Rolls

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

976Calories
77 gProtein
43 gFat
68 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Shrimp100g cooked99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Peppermintnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Shisonot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lettuce + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coriander + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Mint + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together940 recipes

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

  4. Lettuce + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Basil + chivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together389 recipes

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

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

Swap the shiso

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, lettuce, pork, mint, coriander, basil, chive):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Fennelfits better
  4. Shisothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, lettuce, pork, mint, coriander, basil, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.