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Fried Melon and Red Mullet with a Ginger Pickle, Nasturtium Leaves, Wild Rice and a Kaffir Lime Foam

Storing the melon in a sealed bag has a magic effect on the flavour. Go all out with the cheffy touches here with lime foam, deep-fried wild rice popcorn and edible nasturtium leaves.

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Why it works: Ginger and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,621 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

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

  3. Cumin + tamarindtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Cumin + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Ginger + tamarindtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together325 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 cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (melon, olive, butter, sesame, ginger, tamarind, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against melon, olive, butter, sesame, ginger, tamarind, sugar. 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).