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Buckwheat Noodle Salad

Refreshing light snack - perfect for summer pinics

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Shiitake and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Buckwheat Noodle Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

483Calories
6 gProtein
44 gFat
20 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
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Buckwheatnot 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. Shiitake + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Shiitake + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Buckwheat + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

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

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

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buckwheat, olive, shiitake, mushroom, onion, sesame, white wine):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buckwheat, olive, shiitake, mushroom, onion, sesame, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.