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Baked Scallops

This dish was created by Monsieur Oudille, former Head Chef of Michel Guérard’s restaurant and it is one of my favourites. The scallops are placed on a julienne of vegetables, and then baked in their puff pastry sealed shells. The flavours are absolutely stunning - so clean and fresh - and the dish is also very easy!

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Baked Scallops

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

418Calories
36 gProtein
18 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 15 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Chervilnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Seaweednot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chive + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chervil + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together266 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Leek + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Leek + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (leek, cucumber, chive, chervil, pepper, shallot, butter):

  1. Endivefits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against leek, cucumber, chive, chervil, pepper, shallot, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.