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Stir-fried Green Mung Recipe

Great served as either a main for two or a side for four, here's a bowlful of freshness and spice.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Mung bean and ginger work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 47 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

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4 people
Prep6 hr
Cook25 min

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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. Mung bean + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Cumin + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,775 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mung bean, cumin, garlic, ginger, turmeric, lime):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against mung bean, cumin, garlic, ginger, turmeric, lime. 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).