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Spicy Fish Tacos with Fresh Lime Sauce

"This is a tasty dinner you can make quickly that is often a favorite with the young kids in the family."

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Spicy Fish Tacos with Fresh Lime Sauce

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Spicy Fish Tacos with Fresh Lime Sauce

10 tacos
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

518Calories
39 gProtein
28 gFat
28 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
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Taconot in our table0
Taco Shellnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lime + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Lime + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,878 recipes

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

  4. Olive + yogurttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Olive + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, yogurt, lime, sugar, tomato):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, yogurt, lime, sugar, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.