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Sake Mushrooms

Going through a stack of papers in my kitchen I found a note to myself, a recipe to try. The note simply said: big mushrooms, dunk in sake, dredge in rice flour, sauté, salt, dot with miso butter.

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Why it works: Flour and sake work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

  • Miso Butter

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Toss the sliced mushrooms with the rice flour and sea salt in a bowl, then shake off any excess flour.

  2. Heat the olive oil and unsalted butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until the butter foams.

  3. Add the mushrooms in a single layer and cook without moving them for 2 minutes, then turn and cook 2 to 3 minutes more until golden on both sides.

  4. Pour in the sake, scrape up any browned bits, and simmer over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes until the liquid has reduced by about half and thickened slightly.

  5. While the mushrooms cook, mash the room temperature butter, miso and toasted sesame seeds together in a small bowl until smooth.

  6. Transfer the mushrooms to a serving dish, spoon the miso butter over the top while hot, and serve right away.

By 101cookbooks. 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. Flour + saketop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Miso + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Sake + misotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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

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