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A chilled salad of cooked vegetables, lobster, salmon, shrimp, and a creamy dressing.

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Why it works: Lima beans and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 156 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Make the vegetable mold

  1. Prepare vegetables as directed. Mix together in a very large bowl and let chill until very cold.

  2. Mince the hard-boiled eggs finely in a second bowl.

  3. Add the mustard, vinegar and oil mixture, beating well.

  4. Add the cream and blend well.

  5. Fold in the vegetables in the larger bowl.

  6. Chill until set.

  7. Unmold on a large serving platter.

Prepare the lobster and salmon

  1. Remove lobster meat from body, tail and claws of lobsters. Set aside legs for use at another time. Save the head and tail shells.

  2. Skin, bone and put the cooked salmon through a meat grinder.

  3. Add butter and whipped cream and season with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Cream these ingredients together thoroughly.

  5. Fill the empty lobster-tail shells with the salmon mixture and set aside for the moment.

Assemble and serve

  1. Turn the filled lobster tails, filled side down, over the mold.

  2. Where the tails would normally join the bodies of the lobsters, pile lobster meat to simulate as best you can the shape of the mid-section of a lobster.

  3. Add the empty head shells, empty side down, joining the lobster-meat bodies.

  4. Peel the shrimp, place around the platter with sprigs of parsley, radishes and stuffed olives.

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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. Lima beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Cauliflower + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Lima beans + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Radish + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatin
Sets the liquid vegetable mixture so it holds its shape when unmolded.
Eggs
Add richness and body to the dressing and set the mixture slightly.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the dressing.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, giving the salmon filling a smooth, spreadable texture.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smoothness to the dressing, carrying flavour through the mixture.
Salmon
Provides the rich, soft filling that is shaped to look like lobster.

The step that matters

Chill until set. The gelatin must fully set before unmolding; if the mold is unmolded too early, the vegetable mixture will slump and lose its shape.

Flavor stand-ins for the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, cauliflower, lima beans, peas, beans, celery, cucumber):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, cauliflower, lima beans, peas, beans, celery, cucumber. 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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