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Warm Lobster & Potato Salad with Truffled Mayonnaise

Treat your guests to a decadent restaurant-style main course for a third of the price

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and truffle work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 155 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Lobster + truffletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Green beans + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Green beans + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Olive + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, shallot, olive, lemon, potato, vinegar, egg):

  1. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, shallot, olive, lemon, potato, vinegar, egg. 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).