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Asian Coleslaw with Candied Walnuts

"This colorful coleslaw with shredded jicama is tossed with a citrus and ginger dressing then topped with candied walnuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Jicama and sesame work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

  • Candied Walnuts

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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. Jicama + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Jicama + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (jicama, carrot, lime, ponzu, sesame, orange, ginger):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  3. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against jicama, carrot, lime, ponzu, sesame, orange, ginger. 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).