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Steamed Prawn and Bamboo Shoot 'rabbit' Dumplings Recipe

These har-kau 'bunny' dumplings are a perfect dish to accompany the arrival of spring. This recipe makes 30 dumplings.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,375 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep40 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Chicken + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Potato + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Wheat + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Wheat + chickentop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together296 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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 (wheat, flour, potato, chicken, bamboo shoots, pork, sugar):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, potato, chicken, bamboo shoots, pork, sugar. 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).