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How to Cook Chinese Sausage

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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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How to Cook Chinese Sausage

Why it works: Rice and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 984 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

How to Cook Chinese Sausage

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1487Calories
52 gProtein
110 gFat
69 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sausage100g cooked301
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Canola1 tbsp (14g)124
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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 steamykitchen. 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. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Garlic + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Clove + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,677 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Shallot + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sauce, garlic, shallot, rice wine, sugar, sesame):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sauce, garlic, shallot, rice wine, sugar, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.