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New Orleans Barbequed Shrimp

"This is a sure winner in any home. Be sure and cover the table with old newspapers to gather the shells and make clean up easy. Make sure to have warmed French bread to dunk in the 'sauce'! Bibs would be nice to protect your clothing from the sauce but not necessary."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,546 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C) with a rack in the middle.

  2. Place the butter in a large oven-safe skillet or shallow baking dish and set it in the oven until melted, about 3 minutes.

  3. Remove the dish and stir in the zesty Italian dressing, lemon juice, ground black pepper and garlic powder until smooth.

  4. Add the shrimp, heads off and unpeeled, in a single layer and turn them to coat in the butter sauce.

  5. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, turning the shrimp once halfway, until they are pink and opaque and reach 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.

  6. Let the shrimp rest in the pan for 2 minutes, then spoon the sauce over them and serve hot in the pan.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Shrimp + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,546 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  4. Shrimp + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Lemon + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,862 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, butter, lemon, pepper):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, butter, lemon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).