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Sheat Fish with Tomatoes

Sea fish pieces cooked in a tomato sauce with onion, flour, sugar, juniper berries, and bay leaf.

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Why it works: Onion and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Sheat Fish with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean and wash the fish, cut into pieces, salt and let sit for a half hour.

Make the sauce

  1. Fry the finely chopped onion in oil until yellow, add 1/2 teaspoon flour, salt, sugar, juniper berries, bay leaf and the boiled and strained tomatoes.

  2. Let boil for a few minutes and remove from heat.

Fry and bake

  1. Dredge the fish pieces with flour and fry on both sides.

  2. Then place in the pan with the sauce and bake in the oven until the liquid is reduced.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

691Calories
15 gProtein
15 gFat
123 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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.

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

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

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + tomatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Tomato + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Sheatfish
Firm, mild white flesh that holds its shape through frying and baking in the sauce.
Flour
Dusting the fish helps it brown when fried and lightly thickens the sauce.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it cooks, forming the base flavour of the sauce.
Tomatoes
Provide the main body, acidity and liquid of the sauce as it reduces.
Oil
Conducts heat for frying the onion and fish and carries flavour into the sauce.

The step that matters

Reducing the liquid in the oven. Fish is delicate and can dry out or fall apart if baked too long. Baking until the sauce reduces should be watched closely so the fish stays moist while the sauce thickens.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, onion, sugar):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, onion, sugar. 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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