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Garlic, Black Pepper and Butter Crab with Paratha

Karam Sethi shows how to pick cooked crab step by step and creates a luxurious supper dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and ghee work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 467 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a light lunch

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + gheetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together467 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Clove + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + crabtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, garlic, crab, pepper, flour, egg, sugar):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, crab, pepper, flour, egg, sugar. 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).