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Good Ole' Southern Frogmore Stew

"This is comfort food for any true Southerner. Includes shrimp, potatoes, fresh corn and smoked sausage."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Good Ole' Southern Frogmore Stew

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 ↓

Good Ole' Southern Frogmore Stew

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

800Calories
45 gProtein
40 gFat
71 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Smoked Sausage100g cooked301
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Crab + shrimptop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, onion, garlic, crab, potato, corn, shrimp):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, onion, garlic, crab, potato, corn, shrimp. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.