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Sesame Noodle Bowl

A quick and easy Asian-inspired noodle bowl, perfect for a weeknight meal. Use pre-cooked chicken and your meal will be ready in under 20 minutes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Sesame Noodle Bowl

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Sesame Noodle Bowl

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

643Calories
43 gProtein
32 gFat
48 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Orange Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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 (rice, vinegar, onion, honey, sauce, garlic, chicken):

  1. Gingerthe original
  2. Cuminfits about as well
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, vinegar, onion, honey, sauce, garlic, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.