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Trout and Roasted Gnocchi Recipe

Luke Holder makes his own gnocchi and serves it with flash-fried trout, black trumpet mushrooms and freshly-foraged greenery.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 23,449 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

2 people
Prep30 min
Cook15 min

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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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. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Sorrel + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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 (mushroom, sorrel, garlic, olive, butter, potato, flour):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, sorrel, garlic, olive, butter, potato, flour. 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).