Name: Arame with Lotus Root
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 cup dried lotus root pieces, soaked for 2 hours; 1&1/2 cups (dry measure) arame; 2 tsp sesame oil; 1 carrot, cut in 1/8-inch thick julienne strips; 2 tsp mirin; 2-3 tsp shoyu; minced parsley or green onion for garnish

Why it works: Lotus and carrot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 4 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

1 cup dried lotus root pieces, soaked for 2 hours
1&1/2 cups (dry measure) arame
2 tsp sesame oil
1 carrot, cut in 1/8-inch thick julienne strips
2 tsp mirin
2-3 tsp shoyu
minced parsley or green onion for garnish

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. 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.

Lotus + carrottop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together8,053 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Lotus + sesametop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together11 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Sesame + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together641 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Sesame + parsleytop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together173 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lotus, sesame, carrot):

Gingerbetter flavor fit
Celerybetter flavor fit
Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lotus, sesame, carrot. 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).

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