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Grilled Prawns with Garlic-Chili Sauce

"Nothing is more enjoyable than grilling fresh prawns. The sauce in this recipe accents the sweetness of the prawns to make a stunning dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Grilled Prawns with Garlic-Chili Sauce

Why it works: Lemon grass and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 407 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Grilled Prawns with Garlic-Chili Sauce

1 pound prawns
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

278Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
17 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
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Lemon Grassjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Peppermintnot 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. Lemon grass + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together407 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lemon grass + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lime + minttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together846 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Lemon grass + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon grass, pepper, shallot, lime, fish sauce, mint):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon grass, pepper, shallot, lime, fish sauce, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.