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Lemon Sole in Caper Butter Recipe

Buttery, succulent sole with capers makes a restaurant worthy supper in seconds. Serve with new potatoes and wilted baby spinach.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon sole and butter work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

2 people
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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 + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Capers + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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