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Meat Stuffing for Steamed or Baked Buns Recipe

Steamed or Baked buns are a popular snack or appetizer in many Asian cuisines. Here is one filling for the buns from this recipe:http://www.chow.com/recipes...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,192 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Meat Stuffing for Steamed or Baked Buns Recipe

24 Buns

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1400Calories
119 gProtein
62 gFat
81 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Clam100g cooked148
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Vealnot in our table0
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. Sesame + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Sesame + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pork + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sesame, ginger, sauce, rice wine, sugar, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sesame, ginger, sauce, rice wine, sugar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.