Why it works: Onion and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,263 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Red Herring Burta
Ingredients
Directions
Minced the onions and green chillies.
Broil the herring on a gridiron or frying pan until well cooked.
Carefully remove the skin and bones from the herring.
Pound the herring and mix it thoroughly with the minced onions, green chillies, and lime juice.
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.
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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.
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Onion + limetop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,263 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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