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Fish Cakes with Tomato Sauce

These spicy fish cakes and sauce are great hot or cold. They also work well in soft rolls for a fancy sandwich.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Fish Cakes with Tomato Sauce

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1210Calories
51 gProtein
49 gFat
142 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 20 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
White Bread1 slice (30g) white79
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Maltnot in our table0
Tamarindnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + tamarindtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: cinnamyl acetate (sweet aromatic, cinnamon).

  3. Sunflower + tamarindtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Sunflower + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Clove + tamarindtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, cinnamon, clove, tomato, malt, vinegar, tamarind):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, cinnamon, clove, tomato, malt, vinegar, tamarind. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.