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Langoustines Flamed in Whisky Sauce with Dill and Lemon Potato Cakes and Salad with Citrus Dressing

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Why it works: Malt whisky and lemon work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Malt whisky + lemontop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together668 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  3. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, olive, malt whisky, parsley, potato, egg):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, olive, malt whisky, parsley, potato, egg. 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).