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Swordfish Burger Recipe

This is one of my signature dishes and my take on a traditional beach food served in the Caribbean.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 261 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Swordfish Burger Recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

844Calories
48 gProtein
22 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 17 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Iceberg Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Swordfishnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Scotchnot 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 lovefood. 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. Lettuce + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lettuce + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

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

  4. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  5. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (swordfish, flour, egg, lettuce, beef, chive, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swordfish, flour, egg, lettuce, beef, chive, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.