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Shrimp Omelet

A quick omelet made with shrimp, eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,931 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Shrimp Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and devein the shrimp.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

Cook

  1. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Add the shrimp and cook until pink.

  3. Pour the beaten eggs over the shrimp and cook until set.

  4. Fold the omelet in half and serve hot.

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. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  4. Shrimp + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).

  5. Shrimp + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,829 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp
Provides the main filling and savory flavor once cooked until pink.
Eggs
Set when heated to form the body of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the omelet from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Pour the beaten eggs over the shrimp and cook until set. Eggs turn from liquid to a firm, tender structure as proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking over too high a heat toughens and browns them quickly, while cooking too little leaves them runny. Watching for the eggs to look set but still moist gives a tender omelet.

“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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