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Herring in Oats with Potato Salad

This typically Scottish dish of oat-coated herrings with a wintry potato salad makes a delicious light lunch for two.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Herring in Oats with Potato Salad

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

508Calories
14 gProtein
15 gFat
84 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Herringnot 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. Kale + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cucumber + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Kale + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, kale, cucumber, onion, vinegar, pepper, mustard):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, kale, cucumber, onion, vinegar, pepper, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.