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Dermot O'Leary's Hot and Spicy Prawns Recipe

A great prawn dish with a spicy kick from Dermot O'Leary

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,866 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Dermot O'Leary's Hot and Spicy Prawns Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

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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. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  2. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Cumin + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Coriander + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,615 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Cumin + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

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

  1. Cardamomabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, coriander, pepper, olive, sugar. 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).