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De LA Dorade

A simple grilled dorade seasoned with olive oil, sea salt, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,668 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: fish

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the dorade and remove the gills.

  2. Marinate the fish in olive oil, coarse sea salt, and chopped parsley.

Grill and serve

  1. Grill the marinated dorade until cooked through.

  2. Serve immediately for the best flavor.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Olive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Olive oil
Carries the herbs and salt over the fish and helps keep its surface from drying out on the grill.
Fresh parsley
Adds a fresh, green aroma to the marinade.

The step that matters

Grill until cooked through. Fish proteins set and firm as they heat, so the flesh turns opaque and flakes when done. Pulling it off too early leaves the center raw, while leaving it too long dries out the flesh.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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