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Posh Japanese-inspired Beef Carpaccio

My good mate Jonathan Ross is a bit obsessed with Japan so I wanted to create a dish for him that would remind him of all those brilliant Asian flavours. Carpaccio is usually served raw, but I'm searing the beef to give it a bit of colour. You'll be able to pick up these ingredients from most good supermarkets but if you can, get yourself down to a specialist Japanese store and pick up a sachet of authentic Japanese spices – use a tablespoon of that instead of the spice mix.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,175 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

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6-8

Ingredients

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

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By jamieoliver. 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. Beef + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Sesame + tahinitop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Sesame + poppy seedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Beef + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together392 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the seaweed

The recipe marks seaweed as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, rice, sesame, lime, poppy seed, tahini, sauce):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Seaweedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, rice, sesame, lime, poppy seed, tahini, sauce. 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).