Name: Shrimp with Catupiry Cheese and Hearts of Palm Recipe
Ingredients: 2 lbs of fresh shrimp (medium or small size); 1 Catupiry cheese; 1 can of hearts of palm, thinly sliced into rounds; 4 large, juicy tomatoes; 1 onion, finely chopped; 1/2 cup milk; 2 tbsp of finely chopped parsley; 2 tbsp of finely chopped green onions; 1 tbsp of corn starch; salt and pepper; 10-15 whole peppercorns (you can leave these out if you don't want people biting into them); Parmesan cheese to sprinkle; lime juice

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 34,122 recipes mention both. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

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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.

Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,099 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,398 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, cheese, tomato, onion, milk, corn, pepper):

Garlicbetter flavor fit
Celerybetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, cheese, tomato, onion, milk, corn, pepper. 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).

Shrimp with Catupiry Cheese and Hearts of Palm Recipe