Why it works: Shrimp and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 430 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Shrimp Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Break the shrimp into small pieces.
Mix the shrimp with a strong salad dressing.
Prepare the lettuce as you would for lobster salad.
Arrange the shrimp mixture on the lettuce.
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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Shrimp + lettucetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together430 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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