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Steamed Fish with Ginger

"If you like fish or even anything about Chinese food you'll love this recipe."

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Steamed Fish with Ginger

Why it works: Onion and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,192 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Steamed Fish with Ginger

2 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

554Calories
29 gProtein
44 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Halibut100g cooked140
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Peanut Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)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. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Peanut oil + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  4. Ginger + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Ginger + peanut oiltop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, sauce, peanut oil, sesame):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Broccolifits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, sauce, peanut oil, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.