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Vegetable Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce

A great healthy, refreshing lunch or a light dinner. Plus a peanut sauce that everyone, kids included, will love!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Vegetable Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Lettuce and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Vegetable Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce

Serves 5

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

300Calories
11 gProtein
15 gFat
36 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
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Saucenot in our table0
Waternot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Lettuce + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lettuce + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Lettuce + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Cucumber + carrottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,215 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, cucumber, carrot, pepper, sauce, butter, sugar):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, cucumber, carrot, pepper, sauce, butter, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.