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Simon Rimmer's Spring Cabbage and Sticky Mushroom Stir-fry Recipe

A quick, healthy stir-fry that's full of flavour from Simon Rimmer

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Simon Rimmer's Spring Cabbage and Sticky Mushroom Stir-fry Recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

455Calories
14 gProtein
30 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Savoy Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Chestnutnot in our table0
Saucenot 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 lovefood. 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. Chestnut + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chestnut + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  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 cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chestnut, mushroom, pepper, shallot, ginger, wheat, sesame):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chestnut, mushroom, pepper, shallot, ginger, wheat, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.