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Buckwheat Noodle Salad

Refreshing light snack - perfect for summer pinics

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Buckwheat and ginger share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 46 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

  • Sesame dressing

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.

  1. Buckwheat + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Mushroom + white winetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,704 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Shiitake + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together552 recipes

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

  4. Buckwheat + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Buckwheat + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together28 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

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

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peasbetter flavor fit
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buckwheat, olive, shiitake, mushroom, onion, white wine, vinegar. 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).