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Easy Seafood Salad

"A restaurant quality seafood salad -- no pasta, just veggies and whatever seafood you choose to add. This is a basic recipe -- feel free to add your own spin (shredded carrots, diced green or red peppers, red cabbage, seasonings)."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Easy Seafood Salad

Why it works: Cabbage and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,840 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Easy Seafood Salad

12 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

331Calories
36 gProtein
6 gFat
36 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery1 stalk (40g)6

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. Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  4. Shrimp + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Shrimp + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, celery, onion, sugar):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, celery, onion, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.