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Sea Bream and Calamari with a Chickpea and Radish Salad

This dish of griddled sea bass, fried squid and chickpea salad comes with a dollop of homemade aioli.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and coriander work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 57 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (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. Radish + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Tomato + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,711 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Beans + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Turmeric + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the turmeric

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (squid, flour, pepper, tomato, beans, radish, chickpea):

  1. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Turmericthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against squid, flour, pepper, tomato, beans, radish, chickpea. 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).