Name: Wok-smoked Trout with Dill Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2 people
Ingredients: 120 sea salt; g soft light brown sugar; 100 caraway seeds, lightly crushed; g handful of dill, roughly chopped; 3 small whole trout, cleaned and gutted; tsp sprigs of dill; 1 oak sawdust

Why it works: Caraway and dill share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Wok-smoked Trout with Dill Recipe

2 people

Prep30 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

53Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Caraway Seed	not in our table	0
Trout	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Caraway + dilltop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Sugar + carawaytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,409 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Sugar + dilltop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together463 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, caraway):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Gingerfits about as well
Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, caraway. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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