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Curry with Prawns and Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Curry with Prawns and Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the butter in a pan over moderate heat.

  2. Add the sliced onion, minced garlic, green chilies, and ginger; fry until fragrant.

  3. Stir in the flour and gradually add the fish stock to create a rich white sauce.

  4. Simmer the prawns and vegetables until tender.

  5. Add the cooked fish or chicken and heat through.

  6. Finish with lime juice and turmeric if desired.

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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, clove, garlic, ginger, flour, fish):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Limethe original
  4. Avocadofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, clove, garlic, ginger, flour, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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