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Asian Stir Fry

Paleo, gluten-free, grain-free Asian Stir Fry from Paleo Cooking, made with superfood vegetables and chicken --healthy vegetable side dish.

By elanaspantry · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Asian Stir Fry

Why it works: Shiitake and arrowroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Asian Stir Fry

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

982Calories
46 gProtein
60 gFat
76 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Bok Choy1 cup (70g)9
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Arrowrootnot 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 elanaspantry. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Shiitake + arrowroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Broccoli + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Onion + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  5. Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, broccoli, carrot, shiitake, mushroom, arrowroot):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutthe original
  4. Lemonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, broccoli, carrot, shiitake, mushroom, arrowroot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.