Prawn/Crayfish Bisque White Sauce on Pasta Recipe

Name: Prawn/Crayfish Bisque White Sauce on Pasta Recipe
Yield: 1 large serving -2 small servings
Ingredients: 250 grams of raw prawns/crayfish(lobster) with shell(s); 500 ml of water; 2 large lemon and/or lime rind peelings; 2 tsp of Thyme or 4 sprigs of tyme; 3 kaffir lime leaves roll in your hands if fresh/green; 3 horopito leaves roll in your hands if fresh/green (if you don't live in New Zealand just use bay leaves); juice of half a lemon and/or lime; salt and pepper; flour; butter (not margarine); 1/2 cup of regular milk or light milk; Fresh basil; pasta 500 grams at the most; parmesan; 3 pinches of a thickner (like cornflour)

A fancy cheap meal for impressing or enjoying.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients

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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Prawn/Crayfish Bisque White Sauce on Pasta Recipe

1 large serving -2 small servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1182Calories

65 gProtein

30 gFat

165 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pasta	1 cup cooked (140g)	220
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Kaffir Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Crayfish	not in our table	0
Water	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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,973 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,289 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Thyme + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together305 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,491 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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