Calabash Noodle Soup

Name: Calabash Noodle Soup
Ingredients: Calabash; Pork tenderloin; Soy sauce; Cornstarch; Sugar; Garlic; Stock; Water; 2 eggs; Noodles

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 10 ingredients

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Calabash Noodle Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Peel the calabash and cut into finger-sized strips.
Cut the pork tenderloin meat into thin strips.
Marinate the meat with corn starch, soy sauce, and sugar.
In a wok , stir-fry the meat until it is slightly brown. Remove the meat from the wok.
In the wok, stir-fry the calabash strips and garlic for a couple of minutes.
Place the meat back into the wok and add soup stock, soy sauce, and water.
Simmer for a couple of minutes until the calabash strips look tender.
Crack the eggs and pour the white and the yolk into the soup.
Serve the soup with noodles .
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

837Calories

47 gProtein

20 gFat

110 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
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Water	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.

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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 + garlictop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,169 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,147 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sauce + garlictop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,007 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,666 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).