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Paul Qui's Pakbet Recipe

A Filipino pinakbet recipe by Top Chef Season 9 and James Beard Award winner (Best Chef: Southwest) Paul Qui of Uchiko restaurant.

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Paul Qui's Pakbet Recipe

Why it works: Eggplant and okra share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 39 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Paul Qui's Pakbet Recipe

4 to 6 servings
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

481Calories
56 gProtein
15 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Shrimp100g cooked99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Okra1 cup (100g)33
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Pumpkinnot 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.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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. Eggplant + okratop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tomato + eggplanttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Tomato + okratop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Shallot + okratop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Shallot + eggplanttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (pork, shrimp, tomato, eggplant, okra, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, shrimp, tomato, eggplant, okra, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.