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Swordfish with Blue Pesto

Pan-seared swordfish steak served with blue cheese pesto made with basil, pumpkin seeds, and a touch of lemon.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep7 min
Cook6 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. Blue cheese + pumpkintop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14 recipes

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

  2. Basil + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  4. Basil + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (blue cheese, clove, basil, garlic, pepper, olive, lemon):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against blue cheese, clove, basil, garlic, pepper, olive, lemon. 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).