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Honeyed Habanero and Toasted Garlic Tartar Sauce

"This delicious, just spicy enough tartar sauce is especially good with fried seafood. The honey really mellows the habanero and makes the tartar perfect."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Honeyed Habanero and Toasted Garlic Tartar Sauce

Why it works: Pepper and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,630 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Honeyed Habanero and Toasted Garlic Tartar Sauce

1 1/4 cups
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

298Calories
11 gProtein
12 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn Oil1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
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. Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Clove + dilltop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Garlic + dilltop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together943 recipes

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

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 (corn, clove, pepper, honey, cream, dill):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Fennelfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, clove, pepper, honey, cream, dill. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.