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Soy-Glazed Shiitake Mushrooms

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Shiitake and mushroom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 552 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Shiitake + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together552 recipes

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

  2. Shiitake + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together400 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,578 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sauce + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together921 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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