Name: Omelette Aux Crevettes
Ingredients: ½ pound shrimp; ½ cup shrimp velouté; 2 eggs; 2 tablespoons butter

Why it works: Shrimp and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,931 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Crevettes

Ingredients

½ pound shrimp
½ cup shrimp velouté
2 eggs
2 tablespoons butter

Directions

Prepare

Cut the shrimp in half and place them in the shrimp velouté.
Prepare the omelette using the eggs and butter.

Fill and serve

Fill the omelette with the shrimp.
Serve with the shrimp velouté sauce.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

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.

Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,931 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Shrimp + eggtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,829 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp: Provides the main filling and a tender, savory bite inside the omelette.
Shrimp velouté: Adds a creamy, flavorful sauce that moistens the shrimp and the finished dish.
Eggs: Set into the structure of the omelette, giving it its body and tender texture.
Butter: Adds richness and helps the omelette brown lightly while cooking.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.