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Lime-cured Mackerel, Japanese Radish and Green Tea

Jason Atherton shows off his chef skills with this intricate, but beautifully flavoured dish.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and coriander work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 57 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Radish + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Coriander + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,536 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + radishtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cucumber + beetroottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together344 recipes

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

  5. Radish + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, green tea, radish, white wine, vinegar, sugar, honey):

  1. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, green tea, radish, white wine, vinegar, sugar, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).