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Prawn and Coconut Satay Broth

Home late to a bare cupboard and a rumbly tummy? This warm and fragrant broth can be whipped up in no time from ingredients you'll already have in your cupboard or freezer.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Prawn and Coconut Satay Broth

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

980Calories
74 gProtein
64 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Seednot in our table0
Coriandernot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Peanut + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Garlic + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together877 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Peanut + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, garlic, peanut, coconut, milk, chicken, onion):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, garlic, peanut, coconut, milk, chicken, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.