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Shrimp and Grits with Pancetta and Sherry Cream

Be sure to try this shrimp and grits recipe with crispy pancetta and sherry cream sauce!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheddar cheese and sherry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Cheddar cheese + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Butter + cheddar cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,434 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

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

  5. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, cheddar cheese, shrimp, clove, olive, garlic):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, cheddar cheese, shrimp, clove, olive, garlic. 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).