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Soba Salad with Shrimp, Shiso, and Nori

This Soba Salad with Shrimp, Shisho, and Nori gets a flavor kick when you simmer the shrimp with their shells on.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Soba Salad with Shrimp, Shiso, and Nori

Why it works: Shallot and ginger work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 565 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Soba Salad with Shrimp, Shiso, and Nori

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

351Calories
30 gProtein
1 gFat
49 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Shrimp100g cooked99
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Shisonot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 bonappetit. 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. Shallot + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

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

  3. Rice + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,196 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Shrimp + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,055 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  5. Shallot + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 (shallot, shrimp, rice wine, sauce, rice, vinegar, ginger):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Shisothe original

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