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Roast Pork Lo Mein

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 176 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

serves 4 as part of a multicourse meal

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, peanut, soy, shellfish, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By epicurious. 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. Peanut + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together176 recipes

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

  2. Sesame + peanuttop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Peanut + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together877 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Sesame + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Sesame + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sesame, sauce, oyster, rice wine, honey, peanut):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sesame, sauce, oyster, rice wine, honey, peanut. 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).