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Finadene Seafood Drizzle or Dipping Sauce

"Spicy sauce to accompany seafood, meat or veggies of all kinds! Drizzle it on or place a few spoons full in individual dipping bowls for your guests. Latinos and Islanders from all over love this sauce. This can be made days ahead since you can keep it in the fridge for a month. The heat of the peppers will intensify over time. "

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Finadene Seafood Drizzle or Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Finadene Seafood Drizzle or Dipping Sauce

1 cup
Prep15 min

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, clove, garlic, sauce):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, clove, garlic, sauce. 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).