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Squid with Ginger–Soy Sauce Marinade

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Why it works: Ginger and squid work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: soy (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. Ginger + squidtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sauce + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,408 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + squidtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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