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Boiled Fish

A boiled Rohu fish served with rice, sliced eggs, raisins, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Boiled Fish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Clean the Rohu fish and place it in a pot of water.

  2. Add salt to taste and bring to a boil.

  3. Simmer until the fish is cooked through.

Prepare the sides

  1. In a separate pot, cook the rice according to package instructions.

  2. Boil the eggs until hard, then peel and slice them.

Serve

  1. Serve the boiled fish with rice, sliced eggs, and a side of raisins.

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.

Explore the science

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Fish + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Fish + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

What each ingredient does

Rohu fish
Provides the main protein and the flaky texture of the dish.
Eggs
Add protein and a firm, sliceable texture when boiled until set.
Rice
Forms the starchy base that soaks up the cooking liquid and fills the plate.

The step that matters

Simmer until the fish is cooked through. Simmering gently keeps the flesh tender and moist, while a hard boil can toughen and break it apart. Fish is done when the flesh turns opaque and flakes easily with a fork.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, rice, egg, milk):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, rice, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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