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Pan-fried Monkfish with Wild Garlic and Fennel

Here monkfish fillets are cooked in an aromatic fennel and garlic coating and the sauce is flavoured with spring ingredients and a splash of aniseed liqueur.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 49 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, fish (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. Fennel + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Fennel + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together352 recipes

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

  5. Fennel + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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