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Gyu Don Recipe

It's a typical Japanese fast food and it's served in many fast food places in Japan. Ingredients can be a little hard to find, but just go your nearest Asian...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Bonito and ginger work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

2-3 Serves, depending on how hungry you are!

Ingredients

Contains: soy (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. Bonito + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  3. Sake + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together114 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Onion + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,597 recipes

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

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