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Pan-fried Monkfish on a Bed of Fennel Served with Pea and Mint Purée, Rice and Lemon Sauce

This recipe was cooked by amateur chefs as part of the BBC's Step Up to the Plate television programme.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 723 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pan-fried Monkfish on a Bed of Fennel Served with Pea and Mint Purée, Rice and Lemon Sauce

Serves 1
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

811Calories
13 gProtein
39 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Peas1/2 cup (72g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Monkfishnot in our table0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Arrowrootnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + arrowroottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together553 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Fennel + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + fenneltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the arrowroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, fennel, olive, lemon, honey, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, fennel, olive, lemon, honey, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.