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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Lime and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 909 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

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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. Lime + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lime + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,411 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Lime + fish saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Fish sauce + garlictop 26% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together892 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, fish sauce, sugar, clove):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, fish sauce, sugar, clove. 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).