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Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Spring rolls stuffed arugula, sesame seed-sprinkled tofu and crisp summer vegetables. Served with spicy peanut sauce, these rolls are a great appetizer or light main course. Bonus: they don’t require the stove or the oven!

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Why it works: Lime and agave match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 134 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

865Calories
21 gProtein
47 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 18 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Orange Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Sriracha1 tsp (5g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Roasted Peanutnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 cookieandkate. 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. Lime + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Peanut + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Peanut + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together877 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, coconut, milk, lime, agave, sauce, garlic):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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