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Pollack with Classic Cheddar and Herb Crust Recipe

A delicious way to serve pollack - rolled in a cheese, parsley and dill crumb, then baked in the oven.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 669 recipes mention both. Both carry p-mentha-1,3,8-triene, which smells camphor, herbal. The science ↓

Pollack with Classic Cheddar and Herb Crust Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

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By lovefood. 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. Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,308 recipes

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

  5. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,630 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheddar cheese, parsley, dill, garlic, butter, pepper, olive):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheddar cheese, parsley, dill, garlic, butter, pepper, olive. 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).