Name: Lobster Salad
Ingredients: lobster; spiced vinegar

Why it works: Lobster and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 692 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Lobster Salad

Ingredients

lobster
spiced vinegar

Directions

Prepare

Boil the lobster until cooked.
Remove the meat from the shell and chop it into bite-sized pieces.

Assemble and serve

Mix the lobster meat with spiced vinegar to taste.
Serve chilled.

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.

Lobster + vinegartop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together692 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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What each ingredient does

Lobster: Provides the main protein and the sweet, firm meat that forms the body of the salad.
Spiced vinegar: Adds acidity and seasoning that brightens the lobster meat.

“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.