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Vegetable Thai Curry Noodle Soup

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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Vegetable Thai Curry Noodle Soup

Why it works: Bamboo shoots and shiitake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Vegetable Thai Curry Noodle Soup

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

895Calories
26 gProtein
48 gFat
100 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Bamboo Shootsnot 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. Bamboo shoots + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Coconut + bamboo shootstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Rice + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

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

  5. Coconut + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, fish sauce, corn, bamboo shoots, pepper, shiitake):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Lemonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, fish sauce, corn, bamboo shoots, pepper, shiitake. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.