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Wasabi Deviled Eggs with Roe and Crispy Nori Recipe

Mitch Prensky, chef-owner at Supper in Philadelphia, shared this recipe with us. Hard-boiled egg yolks are mashed with lime juice, mayonnaise, Chinese mustard...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and wasabi share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings as an appetizer
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, fish, 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. Mustard + wasabitop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Wasabi + salmontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  4. Mustard + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Mustard + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, mustard, wasabi, pepper, salmon):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mustard, wasabi, pepper, salmon. 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).