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Curried Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,027 recipes. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

Curried Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the fish into 1-inch square pieces.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan and fry the onion without browning.

  3. Add the ground rice, cinnamon, coriander, coconut, curry powder, turmeric, and salt.

  4. Stir in the stock and simmer gently for 20 minutes.

  5. Cut the cucumber into 2-inch lengths, remove the skin, and cut into quarters, removing the seeds.

  6. Cook the cucumber in boiling salted water for 10 minutes, then strain.

  7. Add the cucumber and fish to the curry and simmer for 10 minutes longer.

  8. Serve with boiled rice.

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. Coconut + turmerictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Rice + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,941 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Coconut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + turmerictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cucumber + turmerictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, flour, coconut, fish, butter, rice, turmeric):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Mangofits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, flour, coconut, fish, butter, rice, turmeric. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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