Name: Curries
Ingredients: fish; lobster; crab; oysters; mussels; eggs; rice; vegetables

Why it works: Lobster and crab work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 196 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Curries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish, lobster, crab, oysters, or mussels as desired.
Cook the rice according to package instructions.
In a pan, combine the cooked rice with the seafood and vegetables.
Season with spices to taste and serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

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 + crabtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together196 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together496 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Crab + oystertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together95 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Lobster + oystertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Fish + crabtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together56 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).