Name: Shrimp Salad
Ingredients: canned or fresh shrimps; ½ cup mayonnaise; lettuce leaves

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

canned or fresh shrimps
½ cup mayonnaise
lettuce leaves

Directions

Mix the shrimps with the mayonnaise.
Serve the mixture on lettuce leaves.

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.

Shrimp + lettucetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together430 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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What each ingredient does

Shrimps: Provide the main protein and flavour of the salad.
Mayonnaise: Adds moisture, richness and fat that coat the shrimps and bind the salad together.

“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.