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Chinese Style Low Carb Meatballs

"These are pork meatballs and include low-carb ingredients. Delicious to use in soups, with rice, in stir-fry, or as dumpling filling. Use your imagination!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chinese Style Low Carb Meatballs

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Chinese Style Low Carb Meatballs

24 meatballs
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

379Calories
36 gProtein
19 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. 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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Onion + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

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

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, egg, sauce, onion, garlic, ginger):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Corianderfits about as well
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, egg, sauce, onion, garlic, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.