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Steamed Pork & Prawn Wontons

Low fat but so impressive - you can find the wrappers in freezer cabinets of Asian food stores or speciality food halls

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 456 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 35-40

Ingredients

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

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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.

  1. Pork + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together456 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Sesame + water chestnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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