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Grilled Corn with Lime Cilantro Wasabi Butter

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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Wasabi and corn work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

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By steamykitchen. 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. Wasabi + corntop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lime + wasabitop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butter + limetop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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