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Honey Walnut Prawns

A popular Chinese takeout you can make at home

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Honey Walnut Prawns

Why it works: Walnut and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,149 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Honey Walnut Prawns

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

932Calories
53 gProtein
18 gFat
142 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Waternot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Walnut + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Walnut + honeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together554 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Honey + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,707 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Shrimp + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, shrimp, egg, honey, condensed milk, lemon):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, shrimp, egg, honey, condensed milk, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.