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Ching-He Huang's Chinese Pork Buns Recipe

This recipe is inspired by traditional Chinese barbecue. Delicious roasted pork pastry puffs and pork steamed buns are often found on dim sum menus.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Ching-He Huang's Chinese Pork Buns Recipe

2 people
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

641Calories
34 gProtein
26 gFat
61 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
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Briochenot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together199 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sunflower + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, clove, ginger, pork, rice wine, brioche, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, clove, ginger, pork, rice wine, brioche, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.