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Coconut Shrimp Beignets with Pepper Jelly Sauce

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and beer share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 20 to 25 beignets

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Coconut + beertop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Vinegar + apple cider vinegartop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Canola oil + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Mustard + beertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, pepper, champagne, vinegar, apple cider vinegar, flour, coconut):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Shallotabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, pepper, champagne, vinegar, apple cider vinegar, flour, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).