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Ultimate Korean Fried Chicken with Pickled Radish

Judy Joo combines the wonderful flavours of Korea to bring you her ultimate fried chicken recipe. Serve with pickled radish and a duo of sauces for a mouthwatering meal.

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Why it works: Radish and sesame 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

Serves 4
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Radish + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

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

  2. Rice + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

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

  3. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Chicken + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together939 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, vinegar, sugar, radish, pepper, chicken, flour):

  1. Turmericabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, vinegar, sugar, radish, pepper, chicken, flour. 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).