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Steamed Clams in Butter and Sake

"This recipe is the best for seafood lovers. Clams are steamed with sake and mirin and a bit of green onion in this Japanese way of preparation. My husband likes it so much."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sake and butter share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Sake + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Sake + winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Clam + buttertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together840 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Sake + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Wine + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sake, wine, rice, vinegar, clam, butter, sauce):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sake, wine, rice, vinegar, clam, butter, sauce. 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).