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Coral Mushroom Namul Recipe

Coral mushrooms, while not easily found, are a great addition to a Korean ban chan array.When they are in season, you may see them in the produce section of...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Coral Mushroom Namul Recipe

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Garlic + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, onion, garlic, pepper, sesame, beef):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, onion, garlic, pepper, sesame, beef. 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).