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Sole Diamond Jubilee

Poached Dover sole with pancetta, apple and fennel salad, salsify, port wine sauce and caviar oil.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and fennel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 146 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Sole Diamond Jubilee

Serves 2
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

839Calories
63 gProtein
45 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Salsifynot in our table0
Caviarnot 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.

By bbcfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Shallot + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper, butter, mushroom, shallot, chicken, beef):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, butter, mushroom, shallot, chicken, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.