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Seafood Omelets with Creamy Cheese Sauce

"Thin, rich omelets are wrapped around a crab and shrimp filling. A luscious Cheddar cheese sauce is draped overtop."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Seafood Omelets with Creamy Cheese Sauce

Why it works: Crab and shrimp work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 123 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Seafood Omelets with Creamy Cheese Sauce

6 omelets
Prep30 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

629Calories
69 gProtein
37 gFat
4 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
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Saucenot 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.

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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. Crab + shrimptop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cheddar cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,436 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cream + crabtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream, butter, crab, shrimp, sauce, cheddar cheese):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, butter, crab, shrimp, sauce, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.