Name: Fish and Rotato Salad
Ingredients: four tablespoons olive oil; one tablespoon lemon juice; one tablespoon chop- ped onion; one saltspoon of salt

Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fish and Rotato Salad

Ingredients

four tablespoons olive oil
one tablespoon lemon juice
one tablespoon chop- ped onion
one saltspoon of salt

Directions

Prepare

Chop the potatoes and flake the fish, using a little more fish than potatoes.
Make a dressing of four tablespoons olive oil, one saltspoon of salt, one of pepper, one tablespoon lemon juice, and one tablespoon chopped onion.

Assemble and serve

Mix the leftovers of fish from dinner with cold boiled potatoes to make a salad.
Mix the dressing with the fish and potato.
Garnish with parsley and serve cold.
Serve in bell peppers halved.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

175Calories

2 gProtein

14 gFat

14 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Salt	1 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.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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.

Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Lemon + oniontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,646 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Olive oil: Carries the flavour of the dressing and coats the fish and potato, adding richness.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the fish and dressing.
Onion: Adds sharp, aromatic flavour to the dressing.