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Barbecue Sweetcorn with Smoked Chilli Garlic Butter

BBQ corn on the cob with a smoky anchovy-spiked chilli sauce - finger licking good.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweetcorn and butter work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 102 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Sweetcorn + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Lemon + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,498 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lemon + white peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,657 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Shallot + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweetcorn, butter, lemon, coriander, shallot, sauce):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweetcorn, butter, lemon, coriander, shallot, 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).