Name: Bouillabaise with Green Curry Recipe
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lb fish (skate wings filet) or white fish such as bass, cod; 12 pieces little neck clams, optional; 2 lb mussels, cleaned; 2 lb sea scallops; 2 tablespoons garlic, minced; 2 tablespoons minced ginger; 1/4 cup oil; 3 tablespoons green curry paste; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 1/2 lb shallot, minced; 2 cans coconut milk; 2 teaspoons turmeric; 2 teaspoons paprika; 3 cups vegetable stock; 3 pieces of kaffir lime leaves, slivered, optional

Why it works: Garlic and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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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.

Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ginger + coconuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,168 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,402 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Ginger + shallottop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together565 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Shallot + coconuttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together90 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, clam, scallop, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, shallot):

Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Coconutthe original
Avocadofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, clam, scallop, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Kaffir Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2

Bouillabaise with Green Curry Recipe