Skip to main content

Gravad Lax

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Dill and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Gravad Lax

Makes 1 whole fish

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

90Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Troutnot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

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

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Dill + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Dill + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  3. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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, pepper, mustard, sunflower, wine, vinegar):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Dillthe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Cinnamonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pepper, mustard, sunflower, wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.