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Swordfish with Seaweed Salsa Verde

Combining herbs for the salsa verde with seaweed really gives this dish that fresh-from-the-sea flavor. It's amazing spooned over this swordfish.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Swordfish with Seaweed Salsa Verde

Why it works: Shallot and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Swordfish with Seaweed Salsa Verde

8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

365Calories
31 gProtein
24 gFat
9 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Anchovy100g210
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seaweednot in our table0
Swordfishnot 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 bonappetit. 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. Shallot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the seaweed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, anchovy, parsley, olive, capers, lemon, pepper):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Seaweedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, anchovy, parsley, olive, capers, lemon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.