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Poached Shrimp with Lemon-Horseradish Dipping Sauce

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Poached Shrimp with Lemon-Horseradish Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Chive and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 113 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Poached Shrimp with Lemon-Horseradish Dipping Sauce

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

245Calories
42 gProtein
1 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Shrimp100g cooked99
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Horseradishnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chive + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + horseradishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + chivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. White wine + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Shrimp + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, shrimp, cream, chive, horseradish):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, shrimp, cream, chive, horseradish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.