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Seedy Sesame Noodles with Peas and Broad Beans

The noodles in this salad will cook just by soaking in boiling water from the kettle.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and sesame work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 230 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Peas + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Peanut + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Peas + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Beans + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Beans + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together293 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

The recipe marks carrot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, peas, beans, peanut, sauce, sesame, onion):

  1. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, peas, beans, peanut, sauce, sesame, onion. 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).