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Ranchero Catfish

"My husband loves the taste of Ranch tortilla chips. You don't have to use Ranch flavored tortilla chips. Play with different flavors and see what you like best! This is also healthier since you bake it, and clean up is a cinch---just wad up the foil and throw it away!"

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Ranchero Catfish

Why it works: Egg and catfish work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Ranchero Catfish

4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

351Calories
10 gProtein
23 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Catfishnot in our table0

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. Egg + catfishtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together77 recipes

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

  2. Ranch + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together119 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + catfishtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together215 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Ranch + peppertop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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