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Baja-Style Tempura Fish

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Baja-Style Tempura Fish

Why it works: Lime and mexican oregano share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Baja-Style Tempura Fish

10 tacos

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

792Calories
21 gProtein
19 gFat
136 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
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Mexican Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Sharknot 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. Lime + mexican oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + mexican oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lime + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Mexican oregano + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, clove, garlic, mexican oregano, shark, flour, corn):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, clove, garlic, mexican oregano, shark, flour, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.