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Crisp Lemon Sole with Chilli, Sesame and Soy

This hot and sweet Japanese lemon sole recipe can be whipped up in minutes if you ask your fishmonger to do the hard work for you.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon sole and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Crisp Lemon Sole with Chilli, Sesame and Soy

Serves 2
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

442Calories
7 gProtein
28 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemon Solejuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Coriandernot in our table0
Black Sesame Seednot 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. Lemon sole + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Ginger + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  4. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon sole, ginger, garlic, coriander, sesame, mustard, sauce):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon sole, ginger, garlic, coriander, sesame, mustard, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.