Name: Lobster and Chive Bisque
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup lobster meat; 2 tablespoons minced onion; 5 tablespoons butter; 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 3 cups milk; 1 1/2 teaspoons salt; 1 cup heavy whipping cream; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives

Why it works: Onion and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,907 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lobster and Chive Bisque

6 servings

Prep5 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

901Calories

47 gProtein

26 gFat

118 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Meat	not in our table	0

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.

Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,907 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,050 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Flour + chivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,168 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, meat, butter, flour, milk, cream, chive):

Shallotfits better
Potatofits better
Leekfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, meat, butter, flour, milk, cream, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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