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Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Brown Rice and Water Chestnuts

If you like grilled tuna steaks then you will love swordfish steaks!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and water chestnut work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 170 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pepper + water chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Olive + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,838 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

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

  1. Garlicabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter, swordfish, olive, pepper, rice, water chestnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).