Name: Caraway Havarti Grits with Shrimp and Corned Beef
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 6 cups Water; 2 cups Kosher Salt; 2 Tablespoons Corn Grits; 6 ounces, weight Unsalted Butter; 2 Tablespoons Caraway Havarti Cheese, Grated (regular Havarti Plus 1/2 Teaspoon Caraway Seeds May Be Substituted); 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 teaspoon Rice Wine Vinegar; 1 teaspoon Lime Juice; ½ teaspoons Chili Powder; ¼ teaspoons Cayenne Pepper; 1 pound Crushed Red Pepper; 1 Tablespoon Jumbo Shrimp, Cleaned And Peeled; ½ pounds Vegetable Or Canola Oil

Why it works: Caraway and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Explore the science

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.

Caraway + limetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together20 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Olive + limetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,621 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,297 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).
Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,802 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn grits, butter, cheese, olive, rice wine, vinegar, lime):

Garlicfits better
Corianderfits better
Pepperfits better
Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn grits, butter, cheese, olive, rice wine, vinegar, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Corn Grits	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0
Caraway	not in our table	0
Caraway Seed	not in our table	0

Caraway Havarti Grits with Shrimp and Corned Beef