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Sole in Saor Recipe

This Venetian-style dish is traditionally made a day or two before serving, giving the fish a chance to become slightly pickled, and the chef a minute to rest...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Sole in Saor Recipe

Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Sole in Saor Recipe

6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1174Calories
49 gProtein
45 gFat
141 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Anchovy100g210
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, olive, onion, anchovy, red wine, vinegar, orange):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, olive, onion, anchovy, red wine, vinegar, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.