Name: Shrimps, Ravigote Sauce
Ingredients: large ripe tomatoes; salt; shrimp salad; ravigote sauce

Why it works: Tomato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,469 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Shrimps, Ravigote Sauce

Ingredients

large ripe tomatoes
salt
shrimp salad
ravigote sauce

Directions

Plunge the tomatoes into boiling water for a few seconds to remove the skin, then cool them.
Make a 1-inch incision at the stem end of each tomato and scoop out the seeds.
Season the hollowed tomatoes with salt and place them upside down on a towel or sieve.
Five minutes before serving, fill the tomatoes with shrimp salad seasoned with ravigote sauce.
Serve the filled tomatoes on a napkin.

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.

Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Tomato + shrimptop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,689 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Shrimp + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,423 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).