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Charles Phan's Steamed Ground Pork with Salted Fish Recipe

This Go-To Dish from San Francisco restaurateur Charles Phan of Slanted Door, Out the Door, and Heaven's Dog could be an umami icon: Salty fish over flavorful...

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Charles Phan's Steamed Ground Pork with Salted Fish Recipe

Why it works: Shiitake and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Charles Phan's Steamed Ground Pork with Salted Fish Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1099Calories
75 gProtein
40 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Anchovy100g210
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Mackerelnot 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. Shiitake + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  3. Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

  5. Shiitake + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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, shiitake, mushroom, fish sauce, olive, pepper, anchovy):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, shiitake, mushroom, fish sauce, olive, pepper, anchovy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.