Name: Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Brown Rice and Water Chestnuts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons Sweet Cream Butter; 4 whole 5 Ounce Size Fresh Swordfish Steaks 1/2" Thick; 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil; ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper; ¼ teaspoons Ground Paprika; ½ teaspoons Parsley; 2 cups Brown Rice; 1 can 5 Ounce Can, Water Chestnuts (drained And Chopped); 1 whole Lemon

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Brown Rice and Water Chestnuts

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons Sweet Cream Butter
4 whole 5 Ounce Size Fresh Swordfish Steaks 1/2" Thick
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
¼ teaspoons Ground Paprika
½ teaspoons Parsley
2 cups Brown Rice
1 can 5 Ounce Can, Water Chestnuts (drained And Chopped)
1 whole Lemon

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

497Calories

6 gProtein

31 gFat

51 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Swordfish	not in our table	0
Water Chestnut	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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.

Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,649 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,994 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Parsley + water chestnuttop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together22 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, butter, swordfish, olive, pepper, parsley, rice):

Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Water chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter, swordfish, olive, pepper, parsley, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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