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Red Mullet

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Red Mullet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the rougets in paper, sprinkling with chopped parsley and oil.

  2. Bake the rougets en papillotes and serve with Italian sauce.

  3. Serve with white Eavigote sauce for a la Eavigote.

  4. Cook with butter, wine, Harvey sauce, and anchovy for aux fines herbes.

  5. Add chopped mushrooms, parsley, shallot, and lemon juice to the sauce.

  6. Serve with green sauce for sauce verte.

  7. Serve in a brown sauce with anchovies, mushrooms, and capers for a la Claudine.

  8. Stew in white wine with herbs and thicken with butter and flour for a la Metropole.

  9. Serve in Maitre d'hotel sauce for a la Maitre d'hotel.

  10. For filets de rougets a la Montesquieu, cut fillets in halves, sauté in butter with wine and lemon juice, and serve in the sauce with melted butter and milk.

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.

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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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + anchovytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  5. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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