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Fish with Cucumber Orange Relish

"I enjoy making this because it's easy and colorful! This dish is great for a light dinner on a summer day. I serve steamed veggies with this."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and apple cider vinegar work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: fish

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Combine the chopped English cucumber, drained mandarin oranges, apple cider vinegar, sliced green onions, chopped cilantro and minced dill in a bowl. Stir gently and set aside for 10 minutes so the flavors meld.

  2. Pat the orange roughy fillets dry and season both sides with the salt and ground black pepper.

  3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and coat it lightly with cooking spray.

  4. Place the fillets in the hot skillet and cook for about 4 to 5 minutes per side, until the flesh is opaque and flakes easily or reaches 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.

  5. Transfer the fish to plates and spoon the cucumber orange relish over the top just before serving.

By allrecipes. 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. Mandarin orange + apple cider vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Cucumber + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together530 recipes

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

  3. Dill + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,630 recipes

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

  4. Mandarin orange + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

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

  5. Cucumber + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,049 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 mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, apple cider vinegar, onion, dill, orange roughy, pepper):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, apple cider vinegar, onion, dill, orange roughy, pepper. 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).