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Riced Shrimp

A creamy shrimp dish with rice, butter, onion, and tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,065 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Riced Shrimp

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the minced onion and cook until brown.

  3. Stir in the cream and heat until hot.

  4. Add the shrimp, cold boiled rice, and tomato sauce.

  5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and carries the flavor of the onion as it cooks.
Onion
Browning the onion adds sweetness and savory depth to the dish.
Cream
Adds moisture and a smooth, rich body to the sauce.
Shrimp
Provides the main protein and seafood flavor.
Cold boiled rice
Adds bulk and body, absorbing some of the sauce as it simmers.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity and tomato flavor to the sauce.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Boiling a cream-based sauce can cause it to separate or scorch on the bottom. Bringing it up gently and then lowering the heat to a simmer keeps it smooth while the rice and shrimp heat through.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, cream, shrimp, rice, sauce):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, cream, shrimp, rice, sauce. 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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