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Spring Roll Salad Recipe with Roasted Shallot Peanut Sauce and Tamarind Dipping Sauce

Imagine a spring roll without the wrapper and you've got this Myra Kornfeld salad. A familiar chorus of flavors - sweet, sour, tangy, hot, and nutty all projected onto a mound of serpentine rice noodles and crispy mushrooms.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Spring Roll Salad Recipe with Roasted Shallot Peanut Sauce and Tamarind Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Chive and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Spring Roll Salad Recipe with Roasted Shallot Peanut Sauce and Tamarind Dipping Sauce

Serves 8.Makes 2 cups.Makes 1/2 cup.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1016Calories
22 gProtein
56 gFat
118 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 18 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Peppermintnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Tamarindnot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

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

  2. Shiitake + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Shiitake + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  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 mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shiitake, mushroom, olive, rice, carrot, chive, shallot):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shiitake, mushroom, olive, rice, carrot, chive, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.