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Creamy Shrimp and Scallop Shells

"When planning your next brunch, keep this recipe in mind. It has shrimp and scallops in a creamy mushroom sauce, served in elegant puff pastry shells. Plus, the whole dish is ready in less than one hour."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Creamy Shrimp and Scallop Shells

Why it works: Mushroom and swiss cheese work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

Creamy Shrimp and Scallop Shells

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

540Calories
45 gProtein
34 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Swiss Cheese1 oz (28g)108
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Pastrynot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0

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. Mushroom + swiss cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + swiss cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together413 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shrimp, scallop, mushroom, cream, milk, swiss cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shrimp, scallop, mushroom, cream, milk, swiss cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.