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Fish Tacos with Strawberry Salsa

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Fish Tacos with Strawberry Salsa

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fish Tacos with Strawberry Salsa

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

705Calories
54 gProtein
34 gFat
48 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Halibut100g cooked140
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Napa Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Catfishnot 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 epicurious. 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.

  1. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Cumin + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  4. Olive + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cumin + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, fish, cumin, pepper, corn, chive, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, fish, cumin, pepper, corn, chive, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.