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Thinthukgirl’s Sweet Kim Chee Relish Recipe

I live in Woodside, near the amazing Korean grocery store Han Ah Reum. It's summer, and I decided to get some Italian sausages from Ceriello in Grand Central...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Thinthukgirl’s Sweet Kim Chee Relish Recipe

1 pint

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

215Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Saucenot 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. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Plum + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,266 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + plumtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Onion and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, ketchup, sauce, olive):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, ketchup, sauce, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.