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Fiery Prawn Skewers

Add a touch of spice to your weekday meals with this low-fat and fiery recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Fiery Prawn Skewers

Why it works: Lime and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 305 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fiery Prawn Skewers

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

223Calories
27 gProtein
1 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Shrimp100g cooked99
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Guavanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  2. Guava + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cherry tomato + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Guava + thymetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cherry tomato + thymetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (guava, lime, thyme):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against guava, lime, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.