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Vietnamese-Style Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce Recipe

This recipe for Vietnamese-style summer rolls with peanut sauce contains shrimp, noodles, and herbs wrapped up in rice paper.

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Why it works: Peanut and sauce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 434 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

16 rolls
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Peanut + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Peanut + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Peanut + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together877 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Peanut + shrimptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Garlic + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 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 lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, butter, sauce, sugar, garlic, sesame, shrimp):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, butter, sauce, sugar, garlic, sesame, shrimp. 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).