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Asian Sesame-Cucumber Salad Recipe

A crisp, refreshing, and quick side salad.This recipe was featured as part of our Chinese New Year Dishes for Valentine's Day photo gallery.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 364 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cucumber + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Cucumber + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  3. Sesame + rice winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together244 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Sesame + vinegartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,133 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hydroxy-3-butanone (caramel-like, roast).

  5. Vinegar + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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