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Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Mee Rebus

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preparation:

  2. fry prawn shells in a little oil for several minutes, add water to make stock. Strain.

  3. peel and boil sweet potatoes, then mash.

  4. boil eggs, shell and cut into four.

  5. prepare rempah in blender, add prawn and blend till smooth.

  6. fry finely sliced shallots.

  7. cut tofu into small cubes and deep fried in oil.

  8. dry fry the baby shrimps.

  9. Fry rempah in oil till fragrant, add beef add prawn stock, coconut milk, mashed sweet potatoes. Thicken further with sweet potato flour (first mixed with water). The sauce should be thick and creamy. Bring to boil and season to taste with salt and sugar.

  10. Bring a pot of water to boil, blanch bean sprouts. briefly boiled the noodles.

  11. To serve, place noodles and bean sprouts in a bowl and pour sauce over. Add fried tofu, eggs, fried shallots, fried baby shrimp and squeeze lime over. Green chilis and dark soya sauce are optional.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1475Calories
86 gProtein
54 gFat
162 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 16 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Beef100g cooked250
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Beannot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Galangalnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sweet potato + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  3. Sweet potato + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Shallot + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sweet potato, coconut, milk, egg, tofu, lime):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sweet potato, coconut, milk, egg, tofu, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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