Name: Turbot Garni De Croquettes De Soles Et De Truffes
Ingredients: 1 turbot; croquettes de soles; truffles; fried parsley; hollandaise sauce

Why it works: Turbot and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Turbot Garni De Croquettes De Soles Et De Truffes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the turbot as you would for Zurbot garnished with fried oysters and crayfish.
Garnish the turbot with croquettes made from sole and truffles, alternating with fried parsley.
Serve with hollandaise sauce on the side.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Turbot + saucetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together248 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Turbot + truffletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Truffle + parsleytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,119 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).
Truffle + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes
Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).