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Three Peas with Barley, Chili and Green Garlic

Pea shoots are the young, tender tips and vines of the snow pea or the sugar snap pea plant. Once your plants are established and producing an abundance of pods, clip off leaf and tendril sections about 4 inches long. If you don’t have your own plants, look for these tender shoots at farmers’ markets or Asian grocery stores. Sambal oelek (or

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sambal and garlic work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 77 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sambal + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Barley + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

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

  3. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Sesame + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Peas + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,405 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sambal

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, peas, barley, rice, vinegar, sauce, sesame):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Sambalthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, peas, barley, rice, vinegar, sauce, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).