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Thai Fish Cakes with a Honey and Cucumber Dip

You can make your own red curry paste if you wish but you can get away with a good-quality bought one. The secret to forming the quite sloppy mixture is wet hands - honest it works. You can use halibut, sea bass, pollock or coley depending on your budget. Delicious served with this salsa-like sauce.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 23 ingredients
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Thai Fish Cakes with a Honey and Cucumber Dip

Why it works: Lime and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,536 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Thai Fish Cakes with a Honey and Cucumber Dip

Makes 18-20
Prep1 hr
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1624Calories
81 gProtein
45 gFat
220 gCarbs

Counts 18 of 24 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 18 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Lamb100g cooked294
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Halibut100g cooked140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Lemongrass1 tbsp (6g)5
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Leafnot in our table0
Galangalnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
French Beannot in our table0
Seednot 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. Lime + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,536 recipes

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

  2. Lime + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Coriander + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Beans + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,080 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Fish sauce + limetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together798 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 beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish sauce, lime, coriander, egg, sugar, flour, rice wine):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Cashew nutfits about as well
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish sauce, lime, coriander, egg, sugar, flour, rice wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.