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Shrimp and Pea Pods Recipe

Both shrimp and snow peas need very little cooking, so take care to not overcook them. If you need to keep the preparation time to 5 minutes, shell and devein...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 299 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Shrimp + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together299 recipes

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

  2. Shrimp + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together359 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Peas + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, peas):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Lima beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Sesamethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, peas. 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).