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Fresh Grilled Mackerel with Pimms on a Warm Lentil Salad with Garlic- and Fig-roasted Nuts

Try marinating fresh mackerel in this fruity marinade before grilling for an unusual supper for two.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and lentils match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fresh Grilled Mackerel with Pimms on a Warm Lentil Salad with Garlic- and Fig-roasted Nuts

Serves 2
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

778Calories
20 gProtein
38 gFat
101 gCarbs

Counts 18 of 21 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 18 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Fruitnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Mustard + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lentils + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + lentilstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mustard + pinetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fig, vinegar, olive, pepper, mustard, lentils, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fig, vinegar, olive, pepper, mustard, lentils, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.