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Easy Kid’s Fishcakes

You can make fishcakes from any pre-cooked fish - tinned salmon or tuna or smoked mackerel. You could also bake a salmon or haddock fillet in the oven from fresh or frozen. With cooked fish kids can get their hands on mashing and forming the fishcakes and rolling them in crunchy crumbs. Serve fishcakes with cooked peas or salad and a wedge of lemon in a wrap.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Easy Kid’s Fishcakes

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Easy Kid’s Fishcakes

Serves 2-3
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

965Calories
27 gProtein
30 gFat
148 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 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
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lemon + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, fish, pepper, cream, sunflower, onion, mustard):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, fish, pepper, cream, sunflower, onion, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.