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Fish Fingers and Home-cut Chips

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and kale match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 226 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fish Fingers and Home-cut Chips

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1421Calories
77 gProtein
53 gFat
156 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Haddock100g cooked112
Eggs1 large egg (50g)78
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
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.

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. Lemon + kaletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + kaletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Kale + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

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

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, flour, egg, lemon, potato, sugar, ketchup):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, flour, egg, lemon, potato, sugar, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.