Why it works: Sauce and lobster are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Lobster Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Chop the meat of the lobster into coarse pieces.
Add the lobster meat to the white sauce.
Stir in the dried coral powder and paprika.
Heat gently until warmed through, then serve.
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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Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,095 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together909 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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Sauce + meattop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,167 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- White sauce
- Forms the creamy base that carries the lobster flavour and gives the sauce its body.
- Lobster meat
- Supplies the main lobster flavour and a tender, chunky texture in the sauce.
- Dried coral powder
- Adds concentrated lobster flavour and a rich reddish colour to the sauce.
- Paprika
- Adds a mild sweet pepper flavour and warm colour to the sauce.
The step that matters
Heat gently until warmed through. Strong heat can make a flour-thickened white sauce break or turn grainy, and prolonged heat toughens lobster protein, so warming slowly keeps both smooth and tender.
“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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