Prawn Risotto with Plantain

Name: Prawn Risotto with Plantain
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 100g of savoury risotto; 70g of uncooked prawns; 75g of sweetcorn; 1 plantain; 2 eggs; 2 sticks of celery; EQUIPMENT; Sharp knife; Chopping board; Frying pan; 2 Serving bowls

Soft prawns in lightly seasoned risotto with fried plantain

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients

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Why it works: Sweetcorn and egg work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Prawn Risotto with Plantain

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

183Calories

31 gProtein

6 gFat

2 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Sweetcorn	not in our table	0
Plantain	not in our table	0

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.

Sweetcorn + eggtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together96 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sweetcorn + celerytop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together19 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Egg + celerytop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,334 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweetcorn, egg):

Gingerfits better
Tarragonfits better
Parsleyfits better
Celerythe original

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

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