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Sesame Quail Eggs

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 770 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8 (as part of a korean meal) servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Egg + sesametop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together770 recipes

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

  2. Quail + sesametop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Egg + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122,252 recipes

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

  5. Quail + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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