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Prawn Malaikari Recipe

This is a grand Bengali prawn recipe. Mouthwatering. But sadly, no Indian restaurant even comes close to the traditional recipe. It's generally helpful to know...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Poppy seed and ginger work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 79 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings minimum

Ingredients

Contains: milk, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Poppy seed + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Yogurt + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Coconut + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Poppy seed + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together72 recipes

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

  5. Poppy seed + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together203 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, poppy seed, yogurt, ginger, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, poppy seed, yogurt, ginger, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).