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Late-Night Asian Noodles Recipe

These bastardized noodles, a godsend for dorm cooks, emerge from somewhere between the college-town thai noodle shop and the corner bodega. Our Asian-influenced...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Late-Night Asian Noodles Recipe

Why it works: Peanut and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 877 recipes. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Late-Night Asian Noodles Recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

292Calories
8 gProtein
28 gFat
8 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
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. Peanut + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together877 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lime + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,411 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Butter + garlictop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limethe original
  4. Bananafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, butter, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.