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Warm Smoked Lobster Salad with Radish, and a Lime Vanilla Mango Dressing

A rather smart salad. Smoked lobster, an interesting selection of salad leaves and a sweet, sharp fruity dressing.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and sorrel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 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. Lime + sorreltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mango + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + sherrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Mango + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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