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Rachel's Wasabi Cocktail Sauce

"This is cocktail sauce with a kick. You have to like wasabi to enjoy this. We really make this with double the wasabi, but thought it might be too much for some people. Start with a little and add until you get the flavor you like. If you add too much just increase the ketchup."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Rachel's Wasabi Cocktail Sauce

Why it works: Sugar and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 260 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Rachel's Wasabi Cocktail Sauce

4 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

94Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Wasabinot 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. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Wasabi + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + ketchuptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,447 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + wasabitop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the wasabi

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, lemon, ketchup):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Wasabithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.