Name: Curried Calamari Ceviche with Mango and Avocado Recipe
Yield: 6 servings as an hors d'oeuvre
Ingredients: 2 cups water, plus more for the ice water bath; 12 ounces cleaned calamari, bodies cut into 1/2-inch rings and tentacles left whole; 1/2 cup freshly squeezed grapefruit juice (from about 1 grapefruit); 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lime zest; 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 5 limes), plus more as needed; 1/2 small red onion, finely chopped; 2 tablespoons minced shallot (from about 1/2 medium shallot); 1 medium garlic clove, minced; 1/2 serrano chile, stemmed, seeded, and minced; 1/4 teaspoon curry powder; 1 medium mango, peeled and cut into medium dice; 1/4 cup thinly sliced red radishes (from about 2 medium radishes); Kosher salt; Freshly ground black pepper; 3 medium avocados

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Lime + mangotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together506 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Grapefruit + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Shallot + radishtop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, onion, shallot, garlic, clove, mango, radish):

Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Coconutfits better
Grapefruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, onion, shallot, garlic, clove, mango, radish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Mango	1 cup diced (165g)	99
Grapefruit Juice	1/2 fruit (123g)	52
Grapefruit	1/2 fruit (123g)	52
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

Curried Calamari Ceviche with Mango and Avocado Recipe