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Butter Poached Lobster, Spiced Carrot Purée and Lemon Verbena Sauce

Fancy a challenge? Try this fine dining version of lobster with butter-brasied vegetables and a delicate lemon verbena sauce.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 30 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon verbena work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, shellfish (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. Sugar + lemon verbenatop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  2. Cardamom + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,114 recipes

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

  3. Cardamom + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together405 recipes

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

  4. Star anise + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together103 recipes

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

  5. Star anise + carrottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, butter, sugar, star anise, cardamom, ginger, carrot):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, butter, sugar, star anise, cardamom, ginger, carrot. 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).