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Oysters with Wasabi and Cucumber Pickle Recipe

One of my mates, Joe knows a guy who owns an oyster farm near Nowra, New South Wales. Twice a year (Christmas and Easter), Joe goes down there and brings back...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and wasabi work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 51 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

12 oysters

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Cucumber + wasabitop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cucumber + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together641 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Oyster + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Cucumber + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Rice + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,838 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, cucumber, wasabi, rice, vinegar, olive):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limethe original
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, cucumber, wasabi, rice, vinegar, olive. 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).