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Grilled Tuna Steaks with Grape and Caper Salsa

"This is a great summer dish to serve to family and friends. Make sure to rinse the capers well. Goes nicely with a light arugula salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Grilled Tuna Steaks with Grape and Caper Salsa

Why it works: Capers and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Grilled Tuna Steaks with Grape and Caper Salsa

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

417Calories
22 gProtein
27 gFat
24 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Capers + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Capers + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (capers, shallot, parsley, olive, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against capers, shallot, parsley, olive, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.