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Asian Rice Balls

Delicious Asian rice balls, served with potent spicy chili dip! Perfect as a side dish.

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Asian Rice Balls

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Asian Rice Balls

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1195Calories
21 gProtein
47 gFat
172 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Flax Seed1 tbsp (10g) ground55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Sesame + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, garlic, ginger, sugar, sesame, jasmine, onion):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, garlic, ginger, sugar, sesame, jasmine, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.