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Halibut with Tomatoes, Olives and Marjoram

Enhanced with salty olives and fragrant marjoram and set against creamy polenta, this brightly flavored fish stew offers a wonderful contrast of tastes and colors. End the meal with grapes and newly harvested walnuts, served in their shells.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and marjoram work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 134 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl decanoate, which smells grape, waxy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2.

Ingredients

Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. 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. White wine + marjoramtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

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

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

  3. Pepper + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Tomato + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Tomato + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, white wine, tomato, pepper, marjoram, rice):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, white wine, tomato, pepper, marjoram, rice. 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).