Name: Salted Mustard Greens and Shredded Meat Noodle Soup
Ingredients: Mustard greens; Salt; Pork tenderloin; Corn starch; Soy sauce; Sugar; Soup stock; Cooked noodles

Why it works: Pork and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,069 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Salted Mustard Greens and Shredded Meat Noodle Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Wash and dry the mustard greens.
Add salt to the greens.
Seal in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator for several days.
Cut the pork tenderloin meat into tiny strips. Marinate the meat with corn starch, soy sauce, and sugar.
Retrieve the semi-pickled mustard greens and dice them.
Using a wok , stir-fry the meat until it is slightly brown. Remove the meat from the wok.
Stir-fry the salted mustard greens until slightly brown.
Place the meat back into the wok and add soup stock and water. Simmer for a couple of minutes.
Serve the soup with noodles.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

758Calories

41 gProtein

15 gFat

109 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0

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

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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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.

Pork + corntop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,069 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Mustard + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,445 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mustard + corntop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together463 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Mustard + saucetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,120 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,147 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).