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Shrimp Spring Rolls Recipe

Anne Le of Tamarine in Palo Alto, California, shares a CHOW Tip for making your own Vietnamese spring rolls. Watch the video and then follow this recipe.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and mung bean share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 49 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Shrimp Spring Rolls Recipe

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

552Calories
56 gProtein
15 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Shrimp100g cooked99
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Leafnot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0
Mung Beannot 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 chow. 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. Rice + mung beantop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Lettuce + mung beantop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Rice + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Lettuce + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pork + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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 (shrimp, pork, rice, lettuce, mung bean):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, pork, rice, lettuce, mung bean. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.