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Imitation Crabmeat Salad

"Great deli-like salad. Our family never seems to get tired of it! You may use low-fat sour cream and mayonnaise if you wish. Serve on lettuce leaves with tomato wedges for a garnish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Imitation Crabmeat Salad

Why it works: Lemon and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 784 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Imitation Crabmeat Salad

6 servings
Prep2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

381Calories
51 gProtein
7 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Salad Dressingnot 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 + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together784 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Celery + oreganotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together559 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

Swap the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, celery, crab, meat, cream, lemon):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, celery, crab, meat, cream, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.