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Avocado Prawns in Wasabi Dressing

Wasabi, the paste that adds a hot peppery bite to sushi, peps up this creamy combo of avocado and prawns

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Wasabi and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 46 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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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. Wasabi + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Chicory + watercresstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Wasabi + watercresstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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