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Veggie Tempura

The joy of tempura is that you can use any vegetables, just slice thinly

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Veggie Tempura

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Veggie Tempura

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

862Calories
23 gProtein
16 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Waternot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Shiitake + sweet potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Flour + shiitaketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, shiitake, mushroom, sweet potato, pepper, sauce, sugar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, shiitake, mushroom, sweet potato, pepper, sauce, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.