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Mackerel in Wine and Tomato Sauce

A baked mackerel dish with a sauce of onions, tomatoes, wine, garlic, and parsley.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Mackerel in Wine and Tomato Sauce

Oven190°C
Time35 to 40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Saute the onion in oil for 5 minutes, add the tomatoes, wine, chopped garlic, salt and pepper.

  2. Simmer for 15-20 minutes.

Assemble and bake

  1. Spread 1/2 of the sauce evenly in a baking dish.

  2. Place the mackerels on top.

  3. Cover with the remaining sauce.

  4. Preheat oven to 190°C and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

215Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Mackerelnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  4. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Mackerel
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking gently in the sauce to become tender and flaky.
Tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity that form the base of the sauce.
Onions
Add sweetness and savoury depth as they soften in the oil.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the sauce and helps lift the flavour of the tomatoes.

The step that matters

Simmering the sauce. Simmering for the full 15-20 minutes lets the tomatoes break down and the liquid reduce, so the sauce thickens rather than leaving the fish in a watery bath.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, tomato, parsley, white wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, tomato, parsley, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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