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Broiled Fish. Armenian Style.

Broiled fish served with a lemon‑parsley egg mixture and fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Fish. Armenian Style.

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Clean the fish and soak it in salt for 1 to 2 hours.

  2. Wash the fish well and boil it in plain water until nearly done.

Assemble and cook

  1. Fry the bread slices in butter on both sides and arrange them in a deep, flat pan.

  2. Mix the boiling water from the fish with the beaten eggs, lemon juice, and finely chopped parsley.

  3. Moisten the fried bread with half of the mixture.

  4. Place the boiled fish on top of the bread.

  5. Pour the remaining mixture over the fish.

  6. Simmer on very low heat until well done and serve hot.

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.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs set into the mixture, binding it and giving the dish a custard-like body.
Bread
Fried slices soak up the liquid mixture, giving a soft base under the fish.
Butter
Frying the bread in butter adds richness and browning to the slices.
Lemons
Lemon juice adds acidity that brightens the rich egg mixture.

The step that matters

Simmer on very low heat until well done. High heat can curdle the beaten eggs and toughen the fish, so gentle heat lets the egg mixture set smoothly.

“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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