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Potato Pancakes with Smoked Trout, Horseradish Cream and Pickled Beetroot

Potato blinis topped with char-grilled trout, homemade horseradish cream and pickled beetroot.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 209 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2 (or 4 as a starter)
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Horseradish + beetroottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 recipes

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

  3. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Beetroot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Horseradish + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, white wine, vinegar, olive, maple syrup, malt, ginger):

  1. Applebetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, white wine, vinegar, olive, maple syrup, malt, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).