Why it works: Lobster and almond work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓
Currie of Lobster
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the lobsters until three-quarters cooked.
Remove the claws and tails, and cut them into good-sized pieces.
Pound the body of the lobsters and any spawn, if present.
Add the pounded lobster body and spawn to the almonds and other ingredients.
Mix in curry powder according to taste.
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.
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Lobster + almondtop 31% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together24 recipes
Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
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