Name: Kelli's Baked Halibut
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound halibut fillets; 3/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup low-fat creamy salad dressing (e.g. Miracle Whip™); 1 1/2 cups crushed saltine crackers; garlic salt to taste; ground black pepper to taste; 1 pinch seasoning salt

Kelli's Baked Halibut

"A wonderful recipe my mother used to use when I was a kid. A crunchy on the outside, moist on the inside recipe. Also works great for ling cod, snapper, or other white fish. Enjoy your halibut with what my sisters and I used to call 'pink sauce' (Miracle Whip and ketchup mixed together), a fresh spinach salad and toasted French bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients

Why it works: Garlic and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,090 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Kelli's Baked Halibut

4 servings

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

1 pound halibut fillets
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup low-fat creamy salad dressing (e.g. Miracle Whip™)
1 1/2 cups crushed saltine crackers
garlic salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
1 pinch seasoning salt

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

601Calories

40 gProtein

4 gFat

96 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Halibut	100g cooked	140
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad Dressing	not in our table	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.

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.

Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Flour + garlictop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,149 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper):

Jalapenofits better
Turmericfits better
Parsleyfits better
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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