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Barbecued Sweetcorn and Smoky Butter Recipe

A great accompaniment to any barbecue from Marcus Wareing

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sweetcorn 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

4 people
Prep35 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + sweetcorntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together102 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,477 recipes

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

  3. Coriander + sweetcorntop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Garlic + sweetcorntop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together115 recipes

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

  5. Butter + garlictop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Butter and garlic share little aroma chemistry, yet 10,484 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coriander

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

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Corianderthe original
  4. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, sweetcorn. 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).