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Warm Smoked Mackerel with Honey-spiced Beetroot and Fresh Horseradish

Preparation and equipment: For this recipe you will need a stove-top smoker and wood smoking chips.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Warm Smoked Mackerel with Honey-spiced Beetroot and Fresh Horseradish

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

205Calories
1 gProtein
14 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 14 ingredients. The other 8 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Red Beetrootnot in our table0
Beetrootnot in our table0
Mackerelnot in our table0
Woodnot in our table0
Horseradishnot in our table0
Pea Shootsnot 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. Beetroot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coriander + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,498 recipes

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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

  5. Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,474 recipes

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

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

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, coriander, pepper, beetroot, lemon, honey):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

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