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Bibimbap Recipe

A bibimbap can be a clean-out-the-fridge dish, but you can also use marinated skirt steak and vegetables and top it with a fried egg.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Gochujang and garlic work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr 20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, soy, fish, 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. Gochujang + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Radish + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Rice + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the gochujang

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (jasmine, rice, carrot, radish, celery, lettuce, egg):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Gochujangthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against jasmine, rice, carrot, radish, celery, lettuce, egg. 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).