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Allegra McEvedy's Fish and Prawn Moqueca Recipe

Brazilian fish stew from Allegra McEvedy packed with flat fish and prawns

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 216 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr 15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, fish, shellfish (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. Fish + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together216 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lime + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,536 recipes

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

  3. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Coriander + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, turbot, garlic, coriander, olive, onion, tomato):

  1. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Limethe original
  3. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, turbot, garlic, coriander, olive, onion, tomato. 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).