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Oi Seon - Korean Stuffed Cucumber Recipe

Cucumber doesn't always need salad or to be pickled. Use this dish as a starter, a quick light meal, or as a side with a Korean family style layout.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 364 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Oi Seon - Korean Stuffed Cucumber Recipe

2 to 4 servings (Depends on appetite)

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

736Calories
38 gProtein
48 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

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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.

  1. Cucumber + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + carrottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,215 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Carrot + sesametop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together641 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Mushroom + sesametop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together400 recipes

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

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, egg, mushroom, sesame, beef, sauce, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, egg, mushroom, sesame, beef, sauce, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.