Name: Korean Short Rib Lettuce Wraps
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 h
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 pounds FOR THE RIBS:; 2 teaspoons Bone-In Beef Short Ribs; 2 teaspoons Chinese 5 Spice; ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt; 1 Tablespoon Black Pepper; ½ cups Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 2 teaspoons Sake; 4 teaspoons Cornstarch; ½ cups Water; ½ cups FOR THE SAUCE:; ½ cups Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce; 2 Tablespoons Apple Juice; 2 Tablespoons Dark Brown Sugar (packed); 1 whole Sesame Oil; 2 cloves Rice Wine Vinegar; 1 Tablespoon Green Onion, Roughly Chopped; ¼ teaspoons Garlic, Peeled And Smashed; 8 leaves Ginger (minced Or Grated)

Why it works: Olive and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,111 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + sesametop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,111 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Sake + sesametop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together79 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beef + sesametop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together392 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, olive, sake, sauce, sugar, sesame):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, olive, sake, sauce, sugar, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Apple Juice	1 medium (182g)	95
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Sake	1 oz (30ml)	39
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Korean Short Rib Lettuce Wraps