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Korean Fried Chicken with Pickled Radish Cubes Recipe

Korean Fried Chicken, the better KFC, has been gaining wide popularity in its many forms. The difference is in the very thin crisp skin.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and radish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 49 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr 20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, 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. Sesame + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Gochujang + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

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

  5. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

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

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 (chicken, flour, garlic, onion, vodka, ketchup, sugar):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  4. Gochujangthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, garlic, onion, vodka, ketchup, sugar. 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).