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Chargrilled Sweetcorn and Halloumi with Garlic and Lemon Butter

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Why it works: Sweetcorn and butter work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 102 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Sweetcorn + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together102 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Halloumi + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together86 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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