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Shanghai Noodles with Pork

You may use 1/2 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips, or 1/2 lb. small shrimp, peeled and deveined, in place of the pork. Both will cook in about 8 minutes. Or, for a vegetarian dish, omit the pork and add 1/4 lb. sliced shiitake mushrooms.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,068 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, peanut, soy, fish (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. Corn + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,068 recipes

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

  2. Corn + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together895 recipes

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

  3. Rice + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,025 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Vinegar + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,804 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Vinegar + porktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, corn, sauce, rice, vinegar, sugar, pork):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, corn, sauce, rice, vinegar, sugar, pork. 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).