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The World's Greatest Crab Recipe

"When it comes to crab you have 3 options: you can go to the expensive seafood place for overpriced, soggy, and bland crab; you can ruin it yourself at home; or you can follow this recipe and have crab so good you will never eat it any other way."

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The World's Greatest Crab Recipe

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The World's Greatest Crab Recipe

4 pounds
Prep10 min
Cook6 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

322Calories
19 gProtein
26 gFat
1 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Snow Crab100g cooked97
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Butter + crabtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Garlic + crabtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Olive + crabtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butter, crab):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Parsleyfits less well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butter, crab. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.