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Steamed Plaice in a Creamy White Wine Sauce with Broccoli, Asparagus and Mushrooms

Plaice is well suited to steaming as it retains the delicate flavour and texture of the fish. Try it with James Martin's cream sauce for a little luxury.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Broccoli and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 123 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Broccoli + asparagustop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Broccoli + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. White wine + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,704 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  5. Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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 (pepper, broccoli, asparagus, butter, garlic, fish, white wine):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, broccoli, asparagus, butter, garlic, fish, white wine. 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).