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Shanghai Noodle Salad

If you like Asian-inspired dishes, this one is for you. Think of this as a summer version though, because this one is served chilled. The perfect dinner after a long day at the pool!

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Shanghai Noodle Salad

Why it works: Ginger and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,196 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Shanghai Noodle Salad

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

920Calories
42 gProtein
43 gFat
94 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 20 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Wheatnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Seednot 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. Ginger + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,196 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Rice + pastatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Meat + beeftop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

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

  5. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, sugar, sauce, rice, vinegar, beef, pasta):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sugar, sauce, rice, vinegar, beef, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.