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Smoking Shrimp Creole

A Creole shrimp dish simmered with tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic, and spices, served over cooked long‑grain brown rice.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Smoking Shrimp Creole

Serves 4
Total1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium‑high heat.

  2. Sauté the onion, celery, pepper, and garlic until the onion is translucent, 4–5 minutes.

  3. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves, paprika, and chipotle chili.

  4. Simmer the sauce, uncovered, until it is thick, 15–20 minutes, stirring it 2–3 times.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the shrimp and cook, uncovered, until they are pink and firm, 5–7 minutes, depending on their size.

  2. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

547Calories
33 gProtein
16 gFat
72 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp
Cooks quickly and turns pink and firm, providing the main protein of the dish.
Crushed tomatoes
Form the liquid base of the sauce, which thickens as it simmers down.
Onion
Softens and turns translucent, building a sweet, savory base for the sauce.
Green bell pepper
Adds fresh, slightly bitter vegetable flavor to the sauce base.
Chipotle chili
Adds smoky heat that flavors the sauce.
Brown rice
Provides a starchy, chewy base to serve the sauce over.

The step that matters

Simmering the sauce until thick. Simmering uncovered lets water evaporate, concentrating the tomato flavor and thickening the sauce. Covering it would keep it watery.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, onion, pepper, garlic, tomato, shrimp, rice):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, onion, pepper, garlic, tomato, shrimp, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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