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Shichimi Togarashi and Nanami Togarashi Recipe

Togarashi, the Japanese word for "chiles," is a group of condiments always including chiles that bring out the clean, simple flavors of Japanese food. Shichimi...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Shichimi Togarashi and Nanami Togarashi Recipe

Why it works: Sesame and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Shichimi Togarashi and Nanami Togarashi Recipe

About 1/2 cup

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

10Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 6 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Tangerinenot in our table0
Black Sesame Seednot in our table0
Poppy Seednot in our table0
Seednot 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. Sesame + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Sesame + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together106 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + sesametop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,343 recipes

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

  5. Poppy seed + garlictop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, sesame, poppy seed, garlic):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sesame, poppy seed, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.