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Lemon Sole Goujons, Mary Rose Sauce and Crushed Minted Peas

A treat of a fish supper for two: homemade fish fingers served with a flavour-packed Mary Rose sauce and posh mushy peas.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon sole and lemon work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 27 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, soy, 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. Lemon sole + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon sole + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mint + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  4. Mint + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Shallot + peastop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together173 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon sole, flour, egg, butter, shallot, mint, peas):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon sole, flour, egg, butter, shallot, mint, peas. 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).