Name: Mullet Caviare
Ingredients: Mullet roes; Brine; Olive oil; Lemon juice

Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Mullet Caviare

Ingredients

Mullet roes
Brine
Olive oil
Lemon juice

Directions

Open the fish when the ovaries are mature and remove the roes.
Clean the roes and place them between planks with heavy weights.
After one week, wash the roes with brine and press them again.
Serve the caviare sliced, steeped in olive oil, and sprinkled with lemon juice.

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.

Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Roe + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together251 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Roe + olivetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together71 recipes

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