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Shrimp Butter

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and shrimp match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,733 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 1 1/2 cups

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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 + shrimptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,608 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + shrimptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,546 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

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

  1. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, butter, shrimp, pepper. 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).