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Lobster on Morecambe Bay Shrimp Hash

Serve up some decadence with lobster and Morecambe Bay shrimp. The perfect dish to impress.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and lobster work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 403 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Shrimp + lobstertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together403 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Shallot + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,718 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cream + lobstertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,050 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Tomato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,396 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 tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, vermouth, fish, cream, shrimp, parsley):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, vermouth, fish, cream, shrimp, parsley. 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).