Why it works: Lotus and sesame work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 4Ingredients
Contains: sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
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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.
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Lotus + sesametop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together11 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together8,053 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Sesame + carrottop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together641 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
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Lotus + carrottop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together4 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Sesame + parsleytop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned 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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