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Malaysian Seafood Curry Recipe

A Malaysian curry of softshell crab and British shellfish from MasterChef 2011 winner Tim Anderson.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Malaysian Seafood Curry Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1560Calories
86 gProtein
57 gFat
172 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 17 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Crab100g cooked97
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sambalnot in our table0
Squidnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Coriandernot 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.

By lovefood. 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. Coconut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Shallot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,677 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Carrot + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,477 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the sambal

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, clove, garlic, carrot, coconut, milk, rice):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Sambalthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, clove, garlic, carrot, coconut, milk, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.